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Lesson Three: The Civil War
 

The Northern and Southern part of the United States were very different by the 1860s. The Northern states did not allow white people to own African Americans as slaves while the Southern states did. Slaves had none of the rights that non-slaves had.

Many people in the South believed they needed slaves. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He was personally against slavery. In 1861, the South decided to separate from the North and formed its own government. Lincoln and others in the North wanted to keep the North and South together. The Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1895. The North won the war and the country stayed together. Shortly after the war, Lincoln was assassinated.

In 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This document freed most of the slaves. In 1865, the 13th amendment was added to the Constitution. It prohibited slavery.

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