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He believed in racial equality. He believed everyone was the same no matter what color their skin was! Hes the reason we don't have slaves today.
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South Carolina kind of "divorced" the government.... the south was happy as a slave state and didnt want the government to mess with them.
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The Confederate side was the side that was for slavery... they fought aginst the Union (who won freeing the slaves) who was the side that was fighting for freedom!
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Confederate general Thomas Jackson defeated the Union army at Bull Run winning the first first major battle of the
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Union ships travel up the Mississippi river to capture New Orleans... the souths greast sea port.
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It was the single bloodiest day of the war. About 26,000 men are killed.
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this helped boost Union morale and helped President Lincolin get re-elected.
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U.S Congress passes the 13th amendment to the U.S constitution making aboloshing slavery when rattified to the public on Dec. 6, 1865
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all info found at: http://www.ancestery.com/civilwar_sub?o_xid=21892ro_sch=search
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Lincolin is shot at Fords Theater by John Wilks Booth and dies the next morning.