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The Killer Angels

Emancipation Proclamation

Bibliography

Shenk, R.. N.p.. Web. 27 Aug 2013. <http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/>.

Burns, K.. N.p.. Web. 27 Aug 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/facts.html>.

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-paved the way for African-Americans to fight for their freedom

(USCT)

-only applied to the states in rebellion

(intended to cripple the Confederacy)

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-led the way to total abolition of slavery in the United States

(13th Amendment Dec.6,1865)

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Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states

The Civil War

-Abraham

Lincoln won 1860

election

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-ended in Spring, 1865.

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-Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

George Pickett’s doomed infantry charge at Gettysburg was the first time he took his division into combat

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Began when Confederate warships bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861

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