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background
In 1861 there were 34 united states of america, 11 of which moved to secede from the union and form the confederate states of america but the central issue was slavery. Many northern states eventually began to oppose slavery as opposed to the southern states which based their economy almost entirely on black slaves. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of USA -
The goals of the North and the South
The principal goals of the Southern states were to maintain slavery and separate from the union while the goals of the North were to remove slavery and mantain unity -
The great commanders of the north and the south
Lincoln was the president and also commander of the northern union, his main generals were Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman. The president of the southern confederacy was Jefferson Davis and its leading generals were Robert Edward Lee, Pierre Gustave and Thomas Jonathan Stone Jackson -
Free slaves
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued an executive order proclaiming the freedom of nearly 4 million slaves, but it was not recognized by the Southern states -
Grant vs Lee
On April 9, 1865, General Grant defeated General Lee
in the battle of Appomattox -
Lincoln assassination
On April 15, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth because he together with Lewis Powell and David Herold aspired to fire the Union government from within by eliminating the three highest positions in the state -
The end of the war
President Andrew Johnson signed the Peace Proclamation on August 20, 1866.