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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
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Abe Lincoln was elected president for his first term
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South Carolina seceded from the union
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy
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Lincoljn issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg adress
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General lee surrendered a battle at appomattox court house
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batle of Fort Sumter was fought
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president Lincoln was assasinated
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the thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery
