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California joined the union as a free state.
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congress passes the tariff on 1857. Lowering rates 20%
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John brown attacks harpers Ferry, Virginia then lead a federal Army regular leads troops and captures brown. Brown was hung with two of his men
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on December 26th U.S major general Robert Anderson moves his troops ft. Moultrie, in Charleston, South Carolina, to ft. Sumter.
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Florida,Alabama,Georgia,Louisiana and Kansas all secedes from the union.
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In Washington, president Lincoln issues a proclamation announcing an "insurrection,"and calls for 75,000 troops to be raised from the militia off the several states of the union.
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the battle of Antietam was thre first battle on north soil and is claimed as one of the bloodiest battles on U.S history
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the Gettysburg address was delivered by Abraham
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th 1865, while attending the play our American cousin at Ford's Theatre.
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passed by congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the united states and provides.
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Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln vice president becomes the united states president after the assassination of Lincoln
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in Pulaski, Tennessee a group of confederate veterans had formed a group known as the KKK to stop the policies that would elevate the right of local African Americans
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the Fourteenth amendment doesn't let states make a law that takes the privileges of any citizens
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The u.s house of representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against president Andrew Johnson. The house vote made president Johnson the first president to be impeached in the U.S history.
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The fifteenth Amendment forbids denial to vote on facial grounds.