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The south secedes
When Abraham Lincoln became president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the USA. The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states; Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- and the threat of secession by four more -- Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. (confederate states) -
Civil War first shots
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina -
Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the Civil War. It was also the battle that made the war become real to many. Wake up call. -
Battle of Shiloh
One of the first battles with massive loss of lives. it slowed down the Union conquest of the Mississippi area. -
Battle of New Orleans
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Emancipation Proclamation
An order by President Lincoln saying that all slaves in the Confederate territory are to be free -
Battle of Gettysburg
Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat by the Army of the Potomac forced his Confederate forces to retreat. They never recovered -
Grant's Capture of Richmond
the effort for both the Union and the Confederate armies during much of the Civil War in the east focused on capturing or threatening the enemy's capital city. -
Lincoln's Assasination
Lincoln was killed by a stage actor, John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theathre in D.C. He was for the confederate states. -
civil war ends
Ended in Southern United States
