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Lincoln’s election
The Lincoln election was one of the most pivotal elections ever because it decided the future and slavery of the United States -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the nation. The the vote was around 160-0 and by February 1st Mississippi Florida and Georgia all joined South Carolina. -
Begging of the Civil Wars
At 4:30 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolinas Charleston Harbor and then a little under 34 hours later union forces gave up -
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Lincoln re election
Lincolns re election ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the Civil War. -
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Rebuilding the south
The Reconstruction timespan was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877 during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African America -
Robert E Lee surrenders
In Appomattox Court House Virginia on April 9 1865, Robert E Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant -
Lincoln’s death
On the evening of April 14 1865 John Wilkes Booth a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre in Washington D.C