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The election of Abraham Lincoln
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Location: Washington
The significance of this was Lincoln was against slavery and it led to the Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter/fort-sumter-maps/charleston-harbor-1861.html
Legth:3 days
The Confedates won. This was important becasue it was the start of the Civil war. -
First Battle of Bull Run
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/bullrun.html
Location:http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/firstmanassas/first-manassas-maps/first-manassas-july-21.html
This was an important battle becasue it was the first major battle in Virginia. The Confederates won -
Battle of Fort Henry
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Location: http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3964f.cw0417200/
This batlle was a Union victory. The significants of this battle was it was the first important Union victory of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Fort Donelson
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fortdonelson/maps/fortdonelsonmap.html
The battle lasted 6 days and it was a victory for the Union. It secured the lower reaches of both the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, It also cut off large numbers of Confederate forces from their supply lines and compelled the evacuation of Bowling Green Kentucky. -
Battle of Shiloh
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Loaction: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/shilohmap.html
This as another win for the Union. The battle lasted 2 days. It was a very important win to the west, Tennessee. It also moved the Union closer to its western goal to gain control of the Mississippi. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/secondmanassas/maps/porters-attack-map.html
Confederate victory. The battle lasted 3 days. The Second Battle of Bull Run proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign between the Union and the Confederate in Virgina. -
Battle of Antietam
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietammap1.html
The battle was Inconclusive, but it was a Union stratgic victory. The battle lasted 3 days. It is significance becasue the result of the battle gave Lincoln the chance to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fredericksburg/maps/fredericksburg-animated-map/
This was a Confederate victory. The battle lasted 5 days, The significant of this battle was it sent the Union morale plummeting down and lent new energy to the Confederates. -
The Emancipation Proclamation is signed
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/vicksburg/maps/vicksburgmap.html
This was a Union victory. The battle lasted from May 18-July 4. The significance of this batlle was since the Union won, it gave them control of the Mississippi river. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chancellorsville/maps/chancellorsville-flank-attack-map.html
This battle was won by the Confederate. The battle lasted 7 days. The significant of this battle was it was Lee's most brilliant display of tactical genius. -
Battle of Gettysburg
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg/maps/gettysburg-devils-den-and.html
This was another victory for the Union. The battle lasted 3 days, This victory for the Union hatd stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North and was kind of the turing point of the Civil War. -
Battle of Fort Wagner
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/batterywagner/maps/batterywagnermap.html
This was a Confederate victory. The battle lasted for 2 days. This battle was significant becasue it is when the 54th Massachusetts regiment proved that non-white soldiers could fight just as well as white ones. -
Battle of Chickamauga
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chickamauga/chickamauga-maps/chickamauga-reeds-bridge.html
This was another win for the Confederate. The battle lasted 3 days. This battle was important becase it was one of the wrorst defeats of the Amercian Civil war also because it led the Confederates near to reconquer the city of Chattanooga. -
The Gettysburg Address
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Location: Gettsburg, PA.
It was a world famous speech by Lincoln. Lincoln gave his speech at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, on the site of one of the most bloodest battles in the Civil War. -
Battle of Chattanooga
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chattanooga/chattanooga-maps/battle-of-lookout-mountain.html
The Union had won this battle. The battle lasted 3 days. The significance of this battle was it gave the Union the ability to move further down South. -
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/spotsylvaniacourthouse/spotsylvania-courthouse-maps/spotsylvania-court-house-1.html
The battle was inconclusive and lasted for 14 days. The significance of the battle was that Grant decided to continue his overland campaign towards Richmond. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
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Location: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/coldharbor/cold-harbor-maps/battle-of-cold-harbor.html
This was a Conferderate victory and the battle lasted from May 31-June 12. The signifiicance of this battle was many people died and nethier side really gained anything from this. -
The re-election of Abraham Lincoln
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Location: Washington
Northernerns overwelmingly endorsed and supported the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. It was significant becasue Lincoln can still keep going to try and end slavory. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
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Location: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/march-sea/map-sherman-march-sea.jpg
This march lasted 7 days. The significants of this march was Sherman's march was the first movement of a large army going such a distance without an intact supply line. -
Battle of Sailor’s Creek
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Location:http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/sailorscreek/maps/map.html
This was a victory for the Union. The significance of this battle was that 3 days after this battle Lee had surrendered. -
The surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse
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Loaction: Appromattox County, Virginia
General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, after 4 years of Civil War. It was important becasue the war ended, the southen states trying to became an indepndent counrty had come to an end. -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Location: Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
The significance of this was it was the first time a president had been assianated and casued trouble between the North and the South.
