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Added more conflict to the pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements due to the confusion for whether it would continue slavery or not in newfound territories.
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John Brown an abolitionist assaulted a southern Federal Armory causing more tension in the Union and a southern Army to be mobilized.
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South Carolina officially secedes from the Union
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States. This added more conflict between the North and the South
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President Lincoln sent resources to Fort Sumter and the southern blockade had prevented the escort from reaching the fort.
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The Confederate states had formed after several other states seceded from the Union.
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A fight that resulted in Union victory, the proclamation being written as law and General McClellan being replaced by someone more "competent"
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This document set millions of slaves free through legal law.
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William T. Sherman made an assault all the way to the south's coast line burning everything in their path.
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Andrew Johnson is elected as president and the infamous Ku Klux Klan is established in the same year to force blacks back into slavery by intimidation or death.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders at the Appomattox court house
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John Wilkes Booth fires upon an unsuspecting Lincoln killing him
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Thirteenth Amendment was ratified into law
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The reconstruction of the south begins and is in full swing. Another good thing is Alaska was added to the Union during this time
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Andrew Johnson is impeached and the 14th and 15th amendments are added to our constitution.
Meanwhile terrorism towards the blacks soon get worse and more radical (1870+)
