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		Display Information The Civil War This chapter examines the election of 1860, the secession crisis, the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the Confederacy, the military history of the war, as well as the economic and social changes the war produced. The Election of 1860 South Carolina Leaves the Union Secession Establishing the Confederacy Last-Ditch Efforts at Compromise Fort Sumter Lincoln Responds to Secession War Begins Prospects for Victory Why the Civil War Was So Lethal Bull Run A War for Union The Anaconda Plan Pressure for Emancipation War in the West A Will to Destroy The Eastern Theater Native Americans and the Civil War War Within a War Antietam The Significance of Names The Emancipation Proclamation The Meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation The Home Front The Death Toll The Second American Revolution The Confederacy Begins to Collapse The New York City Draft Riots Blacks in Blue Fort Wagner The Battle Against Discrimination Towards Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg Vicksburg Was Lincoln a Racist? The Thirteenth Amendment Total War Slaves' Role in Their Own Liberation The 1864 Presidential Election Grant Takes Command A Stillness at Appomattox 'The President is murdered' The War's Costs