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Election of 1860
- 4 candidates
- Lincoln won - close election

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Secession of South Carolina
- seceded from the union after Lincoln won the election- nervous about what he would do in regards to slavery

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Formation of Confederate States of America
- Following SC, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded first
-between February and March 11 states seceded to form the Confederacy

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Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
- Goal was to restore the Union
- Unless the South provoked it there would be no conflict

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Fort Sumter attacks
- Fort Sumter stood with the Union
- Lincoln gave supplies and told the gov. they were revisions not reinforcements
- South Carolinians shot cannons at the Fort because they felt threatened

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Bull Run
- First major battle of the Civil War
- Confederates won and the Union army retreated

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Peninsula campaign *eastern military*
- confederates won
- battle to seize Richmond
-Union pushed off fighting resulting in their loss despite their strong army

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Antietam
- battle over MD (boarder state)
-union wins
- McClellan found Lee's plans and won the battle
- turning point for union + caused Lincoln to deliver emancipation proclamation

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Emancipation Proclamation
- President Lincoln ordered to free enslaved people
- made emancipation a goal of the war

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Election of 1864
-  in the midst of the war
- some people unhappy with Lincoln for not doing enough to end slavery and using too much power during war
- Democrats wanted McClellan
- Lincoln wins

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- April 1st and 2nd
- Ulysses S. Grant plans to capture Richmond when Lee's army is weak
- Union wins and gets Richmond

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*western military
-April 9
- Lee planned to get reinforcement in NC after their loss
- met with union instead
- last battle of civil war
- union won- caused Lee to surrender

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Lincoln assassination
- killed 5 days after Lee's surrender