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The Crittenden Compromise is proposed
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South Carolina secedes
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Lincoln becomes president
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The rest of the Deep South secedes
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The south forms the Confederacy
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Ships sail to resupply Fort Sumter
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Bombardment begins on Fort Sumter
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Union Navy takes lower Mississippi River
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Lincoln declares martial law
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First battle of Bull Run
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Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
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Monitor v. Merrimac
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Confederacy passes Conscription Law
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Battle of Shiloh
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Yorktown falls to the Union
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation issued
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Battle of Fredricksburg
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Seige of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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13th Ammendment passed
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Lee surrenders
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Lincoln is assasinated