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President Elections
Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected as President. Not all of the people in the United States of America supported having President Lincoln elected. -
Seceding States, A Country Falling Apart
On this date South Carolina became the first state to leave the Union. Which may incourage other states to leave the Union. South Carolina was scared that President Lincoln would try to put a stop to slavery, so South Carolina left to make their own country which will soon lead to bad things. -
The Country Falling Apart More?
In Febuary, 1861 six more states left the Union for the same reason South Carolina left. The states that left included: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana, and Texas. -
President Job Begins
On this date Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President. President Lincoln is now in charge of our country. -
War beginning?
The Cofederates, the seceded staes, fired upon Fort Sumter and began the Civil War. -
Statements, Laws, and Bills
A statement was issued by President Lincoln a little after Lincoln had been in office for a year. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The statement LIncoln issued goes into effect. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect saying all enslaved people would be freedthat are in the rebelling Confederate areas. -
Morgan Raid
John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general, disobeyed orders and took his cavalrymen across the Ohio River into Southern Indiana, this was called the Morgan Raid. -
Colored Troops also?
The Twenty-eigth United States Colored Troop was formed by Union African Americans. -
Ending of a Long-fought war
Civil War ended when Confederate general Robert E. Lee decided it was time to stop fighting and surrendered and Ulysses S. Grant accepted Lee's surrender at the Appomattoy Court House in Virginia.
