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CIVIL WAR

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1854 - Opponents of slavery, or abolitionists, set up Republican
Party.

1860 - Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln elected president.

1860-61 - Eleven pro-slavery southern states secede from Union
and form Confederate States of America, triggering civil war with
abolitionist northern states.

1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves
in Confederate states to be free.

1865 - Confederates defeated; slavery abolished under Thirteenth
Amendment. Lincoln is assassinated.