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
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Important events

• Emancipation proclamation
• freed the slaves in the Confederate States

• 13th Amendment
• abolished slavery
• 14th-15th amendments -civil rights, right to vote

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New methods - war ships
The Monitor
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Lincoln elected to a second term
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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