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Confederates fire on and capture Fort Sumter, the union previously held, in Virginia, starts the Civil War
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First major conflict of the Civil War, by a small creek, Confederates hold their own and are successful, Union retreats and is forced to take the Confederates seriously
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Bloodiest day in American history, 23,000 deaths/wounded,
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Document that freed Union slaves besides the slaves in the border states, helped weaken the South in the war
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Most famous of all black regiments in the Union's army
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Lee crossing into Pennsylvania for shoe supply, Union and Confederates fight for 3 days; Union wins, Confederates have no hope of help from Europe and are pushed back into the Southern territory
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A path of destruction in the South 60 miles wide, for 300 miles, when Sherman's soldiers pillaged and terrorised the South's society
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A new amendment to the Constitution, outlaws slavery in the Union
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Creation of a government organisation that tried to help former slaves by re-uniting split slave families and helping educate many black Americans
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Lee & Grant meet in a small Virginia town called Appomattox Courthouse, and Lee surrenders to Grant; the Union's victory in the Civil War
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In Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., Lincoln is shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth and dies, while other men attempt to assassinate the secretary of state and the vice president
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The ratification of the amendment that allowed full citizenship rights to people born in the U.S., including recently freed black slaves, and placed limitations on states that tried to prohibit black Americans from voting
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Ratification of the amendment that allowed citizens voting rights regardless of race or color
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Newly elected Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the South, ended Reconstruction and the Republican's fight for racial equality
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Segregation of the Jim Crow Laws is challenged, court ruled that segregation still meant that people were separate but equal, gave emergence to the Ku Klux Klan