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Proposal to prohibit slavery in the US
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This event was basically a fight over Texas between Mexico and America
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The region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican–American War.
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Ended the Mexican-American War ; added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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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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A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery
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A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitutional law.
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John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.
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Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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Caused Lee to surrender because of his loss of soldiers, which made Lincoln win
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declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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Grant besieged the city and caused Pemberton to surrender
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President Lincoln was re-elected
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John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at a play
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abolished slavery
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established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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divided the south into 5 military districts
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People born in the United States are automatically citizens
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All citizens are equal
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one of the most disputed elections in American history
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ended the reconstruction era