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=The Civil War : =

Eleven Southern states had declared secession from the United States because they wanted slaves. They had become the Confederate States. They had fought the Union (who had abolished slavery). Lincoln was elected president in 1860. His Emancipation Proclamation (to end slavery) was a war goal that he wanted to see accomplish. The war actually began when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter. The Union had taken control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two. Confederate resistance ended after Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865.