what were the main events of the civil war and reconstruction?
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['Nov 6, 1860. The Election of 1860. ... ', 'Feb 1, 1861. Forming of the Confederate States. ... ', 'Apr 12, 1861. Firing on Fort Sumter. ... ', 'May 19, 1861. Battle of Sewells Point.', 'Jan 1, 1863. Emancipation Proclomation. ... ', 'May 18, 1863. Battle of Vicksburg. ... ', 'Jul 1, 1863. Battle of Gettysburg.', 'Nov 4, 1864. Shermans March.']
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In 1861, as the United States itself became massively divided over slavery, leading to the American Civil War (1861–1865), the western regions of Virginia split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled as a single state again.
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Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed about 20,000 of slaves in Confederate-held territory, and established emancipation as a Union war goal. In 1865, Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.
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Western expansion, Indian wars, corruption at all levels of government, and the growth of industry all diverted attention from the civil rights and well-being of ex-slaves. By 1876, Radical Republican regimes had collapsed in all but two of the former Confederate states, with the Democratic Party taking over.
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April 9, 1865 The Battle of Antietam,also known as Battle of Sharpsburg, was the first major battle of the American Civil War on union soil. It was important because it was the battle where Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He was waiting for a union victory so it wouldnt come across as desperate.
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Civil War Facts: 1861-1865 The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President. Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri were called Border States.
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Tensions arose between people who supported the Confederacy and those who remained loyal to the Union. Also, a U.S. blockade reduced the sale of farm products, and the economy in Texas suffered. These problems, along with a shortage of basic supplies, made life difficult at home.
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The Radical Republicans wanted to severely punish the South for the Civil War. Lincoln and the moderates wanted to bring the South into the Union quickly. ... Presidential Reconstruction refers to when Lincoln proposed the Ten Percent Plan in 1863.
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['Feb 16, 1862. ... ', 'Mar 8, 1862. ... ', 'Apr 13, 1862. Battle and Capture of New Orleans. ... ', 'Sep 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam. ... ', 'Jan 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation. ... ', 'Jul 1, 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. ... ', 'Nov 4, 1864. Abraham Lincoln wins re-election. ... ', 'Apr 9, 1865. Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.']
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Civil War Facts: 1861-1865 The Union included the states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon.
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['Battle of Bull Run, 1861. ... ', 'Strategy and tactics. ... ', 'The Union army and slavery. ... ', 'Battle of Shiloh, 1862. ... ', 'The Trent affair. ... ', 'The Peninsula Campaign. ... ', 'Battle of Antietam, 1862. ... ', 'The Emancipation Proclamation.']
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The major events of the Texas Revolution were the Battle of the Alamo, the Goliad Massacre, and the Battle of San Jacinto. The Battle of the Alamo...
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Presidential Reconstruction. In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
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The civil war was fought between the Union states (Northern states) and the states of the Confederacy (Southern states).
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Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Clara Barton, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman played notable roles before, during and after the conflict.
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A Southern-dominated United States fights the New Englanders for two years resulting in a Union victory, with the New England states readmitted and President Stephen A. Douglas passing the Civil Rights Act of 1861, which abolishes slavery and grants freedmen the right to vote.
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For years, textbook authors have contended that economic difference between North and South was the primary cause of the Civil War. The northern economy relied on manufacturing and the agricultural southern economy depended on the production of cotton.