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Abraham Lincoln gives a speech at cooper institute, NY. He spoke about slavery.
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A Fast mail service is created.
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Republic party have a convention, deciding on 3 main candidates William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Abraham Lincoln.
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Democrats hold convention.
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William Yancey gives a speech on equal rights between the North and South.
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Representative John Reagan ofTeas sends a letter to the north saying why slavery should be abolished.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes 16th president of the United States. He becomes the first republican to become the president. Only had 40% popular vote, but easily won against John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas. Lincoln will lead the Civil war, and predominently end slavery for good.
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Louis Trezevant Wigfall wrote a southern manifesto, urging secession in the south.
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South Carolina is officially not a part of the United states. They elect their own leaders and isolate themselves.
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South Carolina has a secession Convention on the new confederacy.
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Mississippi secedes from the union.
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Florida secedes from the union.
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Alabama secedes fromthe union.
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Georgia secedes from the union.
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Kansas becomes the 34th state of the U.S.
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Texas secedes from the union.
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Lincoln has his first Inaugeration in office.
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Confederates fire on fort sumter.
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The first official battle of the civil war begins in William county, Virginia. The south ultimately wins.
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Jefferson Davis is elected President of the confederacy.
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Union forces take fort Henry on the Tenessee river.
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Fort Donelson is surrendered on cumberland river Tenessee, by the Confederacy.
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Union forces defeat the Confederates at a church in TN, know as Shiloh.
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David G. Farragut leads the union forces to capture New Orleans.
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Part of the seven days battle of the civil war, Union forces get a grip of this battle and advance.
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Confedrate forces are attacked at cedar mountain, Virginia. Under Gen. Stonewall jackson the confederate forces push out the union and win the battle.
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The second battle of bull run takes place in manassas again, the confederates win again.
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In sharpsburg, Maryland the single day bloodiest battle of the civil war takes place.
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The emancipation proclamation forces the abolition of slavery in the south, and gives them until january 1st 1863 to come backinto the union.
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The union forces win this battle of corinth in Mississippi.
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The Emancipation Proclamationofficially takes place. Slavery abolition is enforced, freeing over 50,000 slaves.
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Congress enacts the first draft in American history. It requires every man to go into the military unless they have a substitute or pay $300 to the Government.
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Mobs broke out and destroyed grocery stores and were angered by forces ravaging crops. This took place in richmond, VA the capital of the confederacy.
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The south wins a huge 4 day battle against the north. The North was led by Joseph Hooker, While General Lee led the south.
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General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies after being mistaken for a union soldier and shot by his own men. Did not die from the wound,but from infection a few days later.
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Perhaps The most important battle of the American Civil war. The North wins this 4 day battle and the momentum shifts. It was also the bloodiest battle of the war.
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General Lee orders General Pickett to charge the Union on the final day of gettysburg. Most of the confederate soldiers died during this seige.
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General U.S Grant takes vicksburg, giving the union the entire controlof the mississippi river, and splitting the Confederacy in two.
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New York citizens riot over military drafts and over 120 people die until the soldiers returned.
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Abraham Lincoln gives his twom minute speech on the civil war, which everyone think too be foolish atthe time. It turns out to be one of the greates speeches in History.
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Lincoln Officially puts Grant in command of all Armies.
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Thousands of men burn to death as the woods they were fighting in caught fire.
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During the advance towards Richmond,Grant loses more men than Lee, but Lee is still forced to retreat. This all happens at the battle of spotsylvania.
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Grant takes a hard blow when he makes many tactical mistakes at the battle of cold harbor, leading to 7,000 deaths of the union in 20 minutes.
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The nine month siege begins on Rishmond, VA the capital of the Confederacy.
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Union Gen. Sherman captures Atlanta and burns it to the ground.
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Lincolnis re-elected president by defeating his old general George Mcclellan.
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Begins his march to the end of the west and reach the sea. He states that "All war is hell".
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The union crushes the confederacy in this battle in Nashville, Tenessee. The war is near end.
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savvanah is captured and Sherman offers the sity to Lincoln as a christmas present.
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The thirteenth amendment is approved by the United states.
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Theunion army captures richmond, The capital of the confederacy.
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Lee and Grant Meet at appomatox court house, Virginia to discuss Surrender terms.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Fords Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobbacco barn in virginia after being chased for nearly two weeks.
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One of the biggest confederate armies led by johnston finally surrenders togeneral sherman of the union army in North Carolina.
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Abraham lincoln is laid to rest in oak Ridge cemetary, in springfield virginia.
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Confederate president Jefferson Davis is captured while wearing a dress as a disguisse by the Union army at the end of the war.
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The leader of the andersonville prison camp is hanged on this date forthe brutal treatment of union soldiers.
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The thirteenth amendment is ratified by the states and abolishes slavery.
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Gives African americans rights in The united states and grants them full citizenship.
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White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Grant becomes a 4 star generalby congress.
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Congress creates the rank of admiral and appoints David G. Farragut.
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U.S secret service begins to investigate the Ku KLux Klan. A group who enforced white supremacy by torchering and scaring african americans.
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Police kill more than 40 black and white Republicans and wound more than 150.
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NJ ratifies the 14th Amendment
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Oregon ratifies the 14th Amendment.
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Texas rejects the 14th Amendment
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Georgia rejects the 14th Amendment
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African americans in Washington D.C cannow vote,just after recently becoming citizens.
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Nebraska becomes a state.
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denying the right of the President to remove officials who had been appointed with the consent of Congress.
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Congress passes the 2nd Reconstruction Act over Andrew Johnson's veto.
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William P. Seward signs a treaty with Russia buying Alaska for 2 cents an acre.
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union.
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the third reconstruction act overrides Johnsons veto of it once again.
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Johnson suspends his secratary of war Stanton, becuase of a disagreement. He then appoints U.S Grant.
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Russia turns alaska over to the U.S.
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Congress is trying to impeach Johnson for his stubborness over the matter of reconstruction
