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Laws were passed that dealt with slavery. New stated on both sides were added to the Union
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Ten states were created by this act. Tension rose due to the Missouri Compromise not alowing states to become slave states past a certian border.
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Due to popular sovereignty the states could choose whether they would be slave or non. When Kansas was created pro and anti slave people rushed to the new state. A radical abolitionists named John would ingite a bloody battle after killing pro slavery people in thier own houses.
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The Supreme Court decied that any black man is not an American citizen. There for can not sue in federal court.
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Lincoln and Douglass would have debates for Illnois seat in the Senate. Lincoln would go on to loose the campaign.
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Elected November, 6, 1860, Presient would become the 16th president. His election would become one of the trigger events for the war.
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The first shots of the Civil War happended in South Carolina
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A bloody battle fought in Virinia that would kill/injury 23,000 soldiers.
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Confederates captured a Union arsenal in Maryland
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President Lincolns speach, which stated, that all men are free. White or black.
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Gettysburg, Pennslyvania would witness the wrost battle of the war. A staggering 51,000 soldiers were either killed or wounded. On November 19, 1863 President Lincoln would adress the battle. Giving one of the most memorbale speeches in Unted Staes history.
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A Confederate prison that held Union prisoners. Conditons were vey poor. It almost always held more men then it was built for.
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The Confedrates would surrender to the Union. Robert E. Lee would sign the treaty in Virginia.
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At Ford's Theater, actor, John Wilkes Booth would assassinate President Lincoln.
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By this date all Confederate states were back to being in the Union. Some Southerners refused to go back and created the KKK
