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Lincoln Becomes President
The South secedes because they new that he would get rid of slavery. -
South secedes
They did this because there were no slaver which was bad for the South because their economy came from the cotton and crops that the slaves gathered. -
The battle of Fort Sumter
This was the first battle of the civil war. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions. -
1st Battle of Bill Run/Manassass
Was the first on land battle of the armies in Virginia. -
7 Days Battle
A series of battles in the Civil War which was when a confederate army General, Robert E. Lee, drove back a Union General's troops, George B. McClellan. Then General Robert thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the capital of Richmond. -
2nd Battle of Bill Run/Manassass
The Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. As a large Union force commanded by John Pope waited for George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac in anticipation of a combined offensive, Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to strike first. Lee sent half of his Army of Northern Virginia to hit the Federal supply base at Manassas.
