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Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States -
South Carolina became the first of eleven southern states to secede
Soon Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia do follow -
Jefferson Davis elected president of the confederacy
Confederate States of America held a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama and elected Jefferson Davis president -
Start of the civil war
Lincoln called for troops to open fire at Union-held Fort Sumter -
Battle of Bull Run
First Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia -
Abolished Slavery
Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia with a compensated emancipation program -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam considered a Union victory -
Emancipation Proclamation
declared that as of January 1, 1863 "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln gives his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
Lincoln re-elected president
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Abraham Lincoln shot
