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Westward expansion redirected over expansion of slavery in the U.S.
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The First Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote
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South Carolina followed within two month Mississippi, Florida, Alabama thus joining the Confederate
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The 1st shots to the civil war took place at fort sumter intended by the confederates
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan.
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freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.
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The Union Army defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia also the time Stonewall Jackson was accidental shot by a confederate soldier
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The union won the battle which was the turning point for the confederates soldier
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It was a law passed to free the African america
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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That night, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head.
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Pres. Andrew Jackson pardoned most confederates who swore allegiance to the union therefore led to many angry american because there were not punishing the confederates.
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Aka The Ku Klux Klan the main reason for its existence was to limit African american to vote
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Charges for his impeachment Fired sec, of war Edward Stanton and
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Ulysses S. Grant a popular war hero but disappointing which were part of political corruption and scandals also. 15th amendments was ratified
