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The republican convention chose Abraham Lincoln as the party's presidential nominee. Lincoln was appealing becasue of his growing reputation for eloquence and his position on slavery.
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11 states from the South seceded from the union after Lincoln's election.
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In 1861 the government levied an income tax for the first time, with rates that eventually rose to 10 percent on incomes above $5000.
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With about 40,000 men Grant now advanced south along the Tennessee River to sieze control of railroads lines vital to the Confederacny. Leading to the Battle of Shiloh.
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Declared that all slaves used for "insurrectionary" purposes ( that is, in support of the Confederate military effor) would be considered freed.
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Also known as the first battle of Manassas, McDowell almost succeeded in dispersing the Confederate Forces.
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Antietam Creek was where the bloodiest single-day engagment of the war, McClellan's 87,000-man army repeatedly attacked Lee's force of 50,000, within enormous casualties on both sides.
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Two Confederate diplomats,James M. Mason and John Slidell, had slipped through the then-ineffective Union blockade to Havana, Cuba, where they borded an English steamer the Trent, for England.
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A requierment of three years of service for those ages 18 and 35.
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A battle between Virginia and Minnesota with a steam boat and a raft.
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Permitted any citizen or perspective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for 5 years. Morill Act was the same but used the finance to support public education buildings.
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Declared free the slaves of persons aiding and supporting the the insurrection (weather or not the slaves themselves were doing so) and which also authorized the president to employ African Americans, including freed, as soldiers.
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A battle fought in West Virginia.
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A court oreder directing that anyonr arrested be brought before the court to see weather there is sufficient evidence to hold the person for trial.
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Declared forever free slaves in all areas of the Confederacy exept those already under Union control: Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeren Louisiana.
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Grant began a campaign to win control of the final peice of the Mississippi River still controlled by the Confederacy. To do that requiered capturing the Southern stronghold at Vicksburg- a well defended city sitting above the river.
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Sherman took Atlanta on Sep. 2. News of the victory electified the North and helped unite the previously divided Republican Party behind President Lincoln.
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Lincoln led in the popular vote was modest by 10 percent.
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The march across Georgia destroying everthing in its path.
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Grant surrendered what was left of his forces at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head as he attended a play.
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The last battle was May 5 afer the civil war ended The Union established all the states. (Confederacy)
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Abolished slavery as an institution in all parts of the United States.