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Opened new territory in the west and decided that popular sovereignty would dictate whether the state would allow slavery or not. Fighting broke out, particularly "Bleeding Kansas"

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The Supreme Court decides that a slave, Dred Scott, has no rights a white man is bound to respect.

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South Carolina secedes the Union, following Lincoln's election. Six more states follow suit and Jefferson Davis is nominated president.

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At 4:30 am, Confederate troops had surrounded Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor and fired on the Union troops stationed there. The Union troops were under fire for 34 hours until Maj. Anderson surrendered. There was not a single casualty.

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The single bloodiest day of fighting in US history. Took place near the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. A total of 23,000 casualties in one day.

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Union defended Cemetery Hill in the town of Gettysburg. Pickett's Charge is a famous battle assault on the Union that did not go well. It is considered the turning point of the Civil War. Lee never invades the North ever again.

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Lincoln's speech at the battlefield cemetery dedicated to the dead at Gettysburg. Will go on to become one of the most famous speeches ever made in US history. "Four score and seven years ago.."

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The elections were coming up again. This time, Lincoln would be going against McClellan, the former general of the Army of the Potomac. It is thought that if General Sherman had not captured Atlanta, Lincoln would not have been re-elected.

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After nine months of waiting, Lee and Grant had dug 35 miles of trenches. The Confederate army was dwindling at about 60,000 men, compared to the 120,000 union army. Grant laid siege to Petersburg, and Lee evacuated Richmond. Finally, Lee and his men could not escape, and they surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.

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On April 15, 1865 Lincoln goes to Ford's Theater to watch a comedy. He is accompanied by his wife, Mary Lincoln. In the midst of the laughter, John Wilkes Booth, an actor at the theater, sneaks up to the president box and shoots Lincoln in the head. Lincoln was carried to a nearby lodging house and drifted into a coma. He died the next morning. Wilkes was captured and hanged.