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-By the spring of 1865 the confederates armies surrendered and the cavalry of the Union capture the President Davis in Georgia on May 10, 1865 meaning resistance collapsed and the war ended.

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-The biggest fighting moments happened in 1862.
-Huge battles like Shiloh, Gaines's mill, Second Manassas, and Fredericksburg foreshadowed even bigger campaigns and battle subsequent years.
-The union had changed its strategy to "Total War" to destroy the old South and restore "New birth of freedom".
-Abe says that the battle field of Gettyburgs will be a cemetery now.

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-Fort Sumter triggered war in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861.
-Confederate Armies opened fire that day which causes the American flag to lower or surrender.
- After American lowers their flag it initiates a chain of four more southern states to secede from the American States.
-When more and more war started going on the American Navy made a sea blockade which shit down our side from the other side of the world.

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-The civil war started between the free and the slave states over the power of national government to prohibit slavery in the newly made states.
-Abe won the election of 1860 and was the first republican president on a platform that kept people from having slaves.
-Seven states first seceded when he became elected  which them together formed the Confederate States of America.
-Fear was spreading that the country would divide into small separate countries.

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-For three long years, from 1862-1865 Robert E Lees army staved off invations and attacks by the Union Army.
Lee surrendering to Grant in the Appomattox in April 1865.

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-Kept the US as 1 nation
-ended slavery
-cost of 625,000 lives
-Civil War: largest and most destructive problem in Western world between the end of 1815 (Napoleonic) wars and 1914 (World War 1)

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-Central event in America's historical consciousness
-Determined what kind of nation U.S. would be
-war resolved two fundamental questions
-->Whether U.S. was to be dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or indivisible nation w/ sovereign national government
-->Whether this nation would continue to exist as largest slaveholding country in the world
-War started because of uncompro
mising differences