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Politics of the American Civil War
- Assassination of Abraham LincolnLincoln's assassination began with a letter Booth picked up at the theater. It said Lincoln would attend that night.
- Reconstruction AmendmentsAfter more than sixty years without change, the Constitution gained three amendments in five years.
- Missouri secessionMissouri voted 98 to 1 against secession, then got a Confederate government anyway. It met in exile in Texas.
- Slavery in the United StatesThe words slave and slavery never appear in the U.S. Constitution.
- Confederate States of AmericaThe last Confederate warship surrendered in Liverpool in November 1865. It kept raiding, unaware the war was over.
- Border states (American Civil War)Lincoln said losing Kentucky was nearly the same as losing the whole game. It was one of the Civil War's border states.
- Ordinance of SecessionMissouri's secession was passed by a rump convention meeting in Neosho. The Confederacy accepted it anyway.
- Proclamation 80On April 15, 1861, Lincoln signed Proclamation 80, calling 75,000 militiamen to suppress a rebellion.
- Origins of the American Civil WarMississippi said its position was tied to slavery, "the greatest material interest of the world."
- Union (American Civil War)To call the Civil War's loyal side the Union was to claim it was the true United States.
- Peace Conference of 1861As ex-president John Tyler opened the 1861 Peace Conference, his granddaughter raised the Confederate flag.
- Republican Party (United States)The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to stop slavery from spreading. Lincoln won the presidency in 1860.
- War Governors' ConferenceLincoln held back his 1862 emancipation proclamation for fear border states might secede.