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1. Decision to blockade the Southern ports (South couldn't trade its cotton)

2. Death of Sidney Johnston (rated as best General in the South)

3. Emancipation Proclamation (keeping Britain out of the war)

4. Death of Stonewall Jackson (essential other half of the Lee-Jackson team)

5. Relief of Vicksburg (liberation of the Mississippi)

6. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg (ending hopes of Confederate invasion of the North)

7. Sacking of Halleck (Union General-in-Chief who squandered his assets)

8. Grant's ending of prisoner-exchange (Confederates certain to run out of manpower)

9. Lincoln's winning the November 1864 election (the North voting to fight on)

10. Sherman's March through Georgia (bringing the South to ruin and starvation)

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1861 - Fort Sumter fired upon, Civil War begins

1862-3 - South has field superiority

July 1863 - Gettysburg - Lee's army is defeated - Vicksburg falls - the Mississippi is controlled by the Union

1864 - Grant and Sherman begin campaigns in Virginia and Georgia

April 1865 - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA effectively ending the Civil War - Lincoln is shot and killed on Good Friday

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1. Battle of Gettysburg

2. Battle of Chickamauga

3. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

4. Battle of the Wilderness

5. Battle of Chancellorsville

6. Battle of Shiloh

7. Battle of Stones River

8. Battle of Antietam

9. Second battle of Bull Run

10. Battle of Fort Donelson

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The main events of the American Civil war were The battle of fort Sumter And Gettysburg. These two battles are important because Fort Sumter Started the civil war and Gettysburg gave the union hope to win this battle and end Slavery

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* The fall of Fort Sumter. * The shootout between the Monitor and the Virginia. * Vicksburg. * Gettysburg. * Sherman's March to the Sea.

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one of the inpotant things that happend was that it got rid of slavery.

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what are the key events during the civil war

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nothing the civil war is boring

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