SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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June 5, 1861
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June 8, 1861
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July 8, 1861
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January 8, 1961
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Detailed explanation-1: -On this day in 1861, as the Civil War entered its third month, Tennessee, a border state poised between North and South, voted 102, 172-47, 328 to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 13, 1865.