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Causes Remote or Indirect 1. Invention of Cotton Gin
2. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
3. Tariff Laws
4. Industrial Differences
5. Slavery debates in Congress
6. Slavery legislation
Immediate or Direct 1. Sectional Literature
2. Anti-Slavery Societies
3. Fugitive Slave Law
5. Election of Lincoln
The War for the Union 1861 1. Opinions regarding the length of the war
2. Inauguration of Lincoln
3. States which seceded
4. Organization of Confederacy
5. Firing on the "Star of the West"
6. Bombardment of Fort Sumter
7. War Measures
8. Baltimore Rioting
9. Events in Missouri
10. Trent affair
11. Battle of Bull Run
1862 1. Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson
2. Monitor and Merrimac
3. Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing)
4. New Orleans Captured
5. Peninsular Campaign
6. Williamsburg
7. Perryville
8. Events in Shenandoah
9 . Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
10. Antietam
11. Emancipation Proclamation issued
12. Battle of Fredericksburg
1863 1. Daily expenses
2. National Banking System established
3. Military Situation
4. Battle of Murfeesboro
5. England's attitude toward the Confederacy
6. Siege and surrender of Vicksburg
7. Battle of Chickamauga
8. Battle of Lookout Mt. and Missionary Ridge
9. Siege of Knoxville
10. Battle of Chancellorsville
11. Battle of Gettysburg
12. Morgan's raid
13. Emancipation becomes effective
14. West Virginia admitted into the Union
1864 1. Grant made Lieutenant-General
2. Plan for continuance of the struggle
3. Raids in the Shenandoah Valley
4. Battle of Mobile Bay
5. Destruction of the Albemarle
6. English built Confederate Cruisers
7. Atlanta Campaign
8. Sherman's march through Georgia
9. Napolean's duplicity
10. The Wilderness campaign
1865 1. The famous Hampton Roads meeting
2. Disaster at Petersburg
3. Shenandoah Valley desolated
4. Sheridan's ride
5. Evacuation and burning of Richmond
6. Lee's surrender
7. Johnston's surrender
8. Capture of Davis
9. Thanksgiving
10. Lincoln's assassignation
11. The French in Mexico

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