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lincoln elected president
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Civil War starts at 4:30 a.m.
first shot fired at fort sumter. this is in charleston, south carolina. many people thought that this would be a short glorious war because the north had many advatages over the south. some are more people, more factories, more food production, and better railroads -
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Civil war
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Virginia secedes from the union
within five weeks three more states secedes from the union -
union army suffers
they were defeated at bull run by a guy named Thomas J. Jackson A.K.A " stone wall Jackson" this was only 25 miles from washington, D.C. this also was the first battle of the civil war -
souths greatest sea port
17 union ships move up the mississippi to take over new orleans -
emascipation
Lincoln disscuses a draft with the cabinet. this would free all slaves behind the confederate lines. this also would allow the former slave to inlist in the union army -
final draft of emancipation
lincoln singed the final emancipation -
Guttysburg
A huge turning point in the civil war. they lost more than 50,000 soldiers. this war happened in Pennsylvania -
gettysburg Address
this was a speech that president lincoln gave to rember all of the troops that died during the war -
lincoln
he gets re-elected -
genral lee
genral lee surendered
