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The legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
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a set of five bills proposed by Republican Senator Henry Clay
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri
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11 Confederate states left.
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the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, started the American Civil War.
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states
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no slavery
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Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad made the American West easily accessible, creating a boon of trade, business and population.
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Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
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an attempt was made to arrest the famous Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, during which a fight broke out and the chief was killed.
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It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
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The immediate cause for World War 1 was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife Sophie.
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US votes to send troops to Germany