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Abraham Lincoln, the person that said "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free" becomes the President of the United States of America.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union, and two months after this, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas join the Cinfederate states,
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The Confederacy opens fire with 50 cannons on the fort marking the beginning of the Civil War.
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Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also seced from the Union making a Confederate population of 9 million plus 4 million slaves while union has 21 States with a population of over 20 million.
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Lee, a trained general in the United States Army goes to Virginia to fight with his home state, and at Richmond, he is offered a deal to fight as a general in the Civil War.
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Union army is defeated at bull run by Confederate General Thomas Jackson and he earns the nickname "Stonewall," because Union troops fall back to Washington.
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Victory for General Grant in Tennessee. The Union army captures Fort Henry, and later Fort Donelson.
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Confederacy attack General Grant's rookie troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. This results in 13,000 Union soldiers killed.
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Union ships go to the Mississippi River then capture New Orleans, one of the South's best seaports.
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President Lincoln puts the Emancipation Proclamation in action, freeing all slaves in the Confederates . The war changes its route to not only keep the Union safe, but to abolish slavery everywhere.
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The majority of the war is now against the South as the Confederates lose the battleof Gettysburg in PA. This battle is the turning point of the war helping the North
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A grave mistake by General Grant cost the Union Army to loose 7,000 soldiers in Cold Harbor Virginia. They were killed be the rebels of Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President, defeating his Democratic competitor. Lincoln convinces all but three states having a 55 percent popular vote of all the States.
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General Lee gives up everything that is left in him, he states that after 4 years of fighting, he has to give up due to the circumstances.
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Lincoln is killed by John Wilkes Booth and America is in despair. As the months pass, America progresses; Booth is killed, all the Confederate groups surrender, and the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery is created.
