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Shots Fired At Fort Sumter
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Robert Anderson the major in his garrison held on to Fort Sumter. They were running out of supplies in the harbor of Charleston and Carolina.If lincoln chose to supply the Garrison he had high risk of starting a war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a huge turning point in the Civil War. President Abraha Lincoln knew that neither the northerners or the border states (slave states) would support abolition as the war was comming. By mid-1862, thousands of slaves went to envade northern armies.on sept. 22nd Lincoln established the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in the rebellious states shall be free. -
Battle of Gettysburg
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The two sides called for reinforcments, and thats when Gettysburg began.The fight was on for three days,and during this time 90,000 union troops under the command of general george Meade met up with 75,000 confederates. -
Battle of Vicksburg
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In Mississippi, at the battle Siege of Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant defeated conederate troops. Grant had began his attack at Vicksburg on May 1863.The victories of Vicksburg and Gettysburg,in favor of the North this turned into the tide of war. -
Gettysburg Address
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November 1863, President Lincoln was invited to make remarks, which was later known as the Gettysburg Address.On the site of one of the most bloodiest battles of the Civil War,took place the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.They say that Lincoln's 273-word address would be remembered as one of the most important speeches in American history. -
The Thirtheenth Amendment
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Many African Americans were released and one, whose named happend to be Booker T. Washington. The Emancipation Proclamation applied somehwhat of a rule to slaves in the Confederacy. However, many African Americans in the border states were still enslaved.In 1864, President Lincoln approved a constitutional amendment to end slavery altogether.But, it failed to pass Congress.Lincoln urged Congress to pass what is now known as the Thirteenth Amendment, it had passed. -
Reconstruction Begins
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After the Civil War ended in 1865, the south faced the challenges of Reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. In Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, he called for allowing the confederate states to uickly find a new government and to send representatives to Congress. The president established Freeden's Bureau to assist former slaves. -
Lee surrenders to Grant
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On April 7th General Grannt finally decides to make a meeting between the two comanders. Robert E.Lee realized his men were weak and exahausted so he had no choice but to surrender.After a series of letters, they agreed to meet April,9th. The war was mentioned to be over. -
Lincoln's Assassination
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For the celebration of Lee's surrendering.The president too his wife to a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. John Wilkes Booth was a confederate supporter. During th eplay, he crept into the booth and shot Lincoln in the back of his head.Booth had manged to escaped but, was soon captured by Union troop and killed him several day later.The bullet could not be removed. The next morning, the president was dead. He was the first American president to be assassinated. -
Rebuilding Brings Conflict
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Some states refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. The Southern states passed laws, known as black codes.They limited the freedom of former slaves.African Americans had to have written proof of employmet. Any African Aerican without it would be put to work on an plantation.
