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The Kansas-Nebraska act was the devision of the Nebraska territory. They let the people who lived there decide if they would be a slave state or a free state. As a result people from the North and South moved to their respective territories. This enactment was also known as "Bleeding Kansas".
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The Dred Scott case was a court case in which Dred Scott, a slave who's owner recently died and lived in the North, pleeded for his freedom.
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Lincoln is the first republican elected.
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The first battle of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation. This freed the slaves in the Confederate states of America.
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The Union won the battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Giving them control of the Mississippi river.
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From this point on, the USA focused on rebuilding the US.
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Lincoln said that any state could be reintergrated into the United States of America, if ten percent of their people took an oath to support the Emancipation Proclomation.
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This era lasted from 1865 to 1877. It focused on rebuilding the USA.
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This date is when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox court house.
