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1861 | Kansas is the 34th state admitted to the Union |
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1861 | Abraham Lincoln inaugurated president |
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1861 | Outbreak of Civil War in the U.S. GO ! |
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1861 | Confederate States of America founded GO ! |
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1861 | Lincoln calls up state militia and suspends habeas corpus |
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1861 | 4 March - Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President GO ! |
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1862 | Morrill Act GO ! |
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1862 | Pacific Railway Act GO ! |
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1862 | Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia |
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1862 | Homestead Act GO ! |
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1862 | Pacific Railroad Act GO ! |
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1862 | Minnesota Uprising of Sioux |
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1863 | West Virginia is the 35th state admitted to the Union |
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1863 | Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation GO ! |
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1863 | Union Banking Act |
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1863 | Southern tax laws and impressment act |
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1863 | New York draft riots |
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1863 | 3 March - The U.S. Congress enacts a draft |
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1863 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address GO ! |
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1864 | Wade-Davis Bill GO ! |
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1864 | Nevada is the 36th state admitted to the Union |
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1864 | National Banking Act of 1864 |
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1864 | Abraham Lincoln re-elected President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1865 | Confederate States of America surrender at Appomattox on 9 April GO ! |
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1865 | Abraham Lincoln assassinated; succeeded by Andrew Johnson GO ! |
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1865 | Johnson proposes general amnesty and reconstruction plan |
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1865 | 6 December - The Thirteenth Amendment is finally ratified - slavery is abolished GO ! |
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1864 | Maximilian Affair |
