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1850
California joined the union as a free state. -
1857
congress passes the tariff on 1857. Lowering rates 20% -
1859
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 -
1860
on December 26th U.S major general Robert Anderson moves his troops ft. Moultrie, in Charleston, South Carolina, to ft. Sumter. -
1861
Florida,Alabama,Georgia,Louisiana and Kansas all secedes from the union. -
1861
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. -
1862
the battle of Antietam was thre first battle on north soil and is claimed as one of the bloodiest battles on U.S history -
1863
the Gettysburg address was delivered by Abraham
Lincoln during the Civil War and 4 and a half months after the union defeated the confederacy -
1865
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th 1865, while attending the play our American cousin at Ford's Theatre. -
1865
passed by congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the united states and provides. -
1865
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln vice president becomes the united states president after the assassination of Lincoln -
1865
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 -
1868
the Fourteenth amendment doesn't let states make a law that takes the privileges of any citizens -
1868
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. -
1870
The fifteenth Amendment forbids denial to vote on facial grounds.