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Title: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR


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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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CAUSES
  • Election of Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • States rights vs. Power of the federal government

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The war begins - the firing on Fort Sumpter
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The first States secede
5
Important events
  • Emancipation proclamation
  • freed the slaves in the Confederate States
  • 13th Amendment
  • abolished slavery
  • 14th-15th amendments -civil rights, right to vote

6
New methods - war ships
The Monitor
7
Lincoln elected to a second term
8
The end of the Confederacy
  • 13th amendment is ratified by all but three
    states (NJ, DE, KY, )
  • Desertion became epidemic - 12 confed., 9
    Union
  • Belief that cause was hopeless
  • Lee surrenders April 9, 1865

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Lincoln is assassinated
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Punishment of the killers and conspirators
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RECONSRTUCTION
  • Ratification of the 13, 14, 15, Amendments
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