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Attack on Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was considered to be the started of the war, when the shot were first fired. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Freeing slave in area of rebellion. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Was an event that remind people of the importance of founding and preservation of the young nation. -
Ratification of 13th Amendment
Lincoln spoke about how slavery had divided the nation as well as efforts to began to bind up the nation wounds. -
Assassination of Lincoln
Lincoln was watching a play with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C , when John Wilkes Booth shot in him the back of the head. He died the next day. -
The Surrender at Appomattox Court House
A year and four months after the Gettysburg Address General Lee surrendered to General Grants at the Appomattox Court House.
