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a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress
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was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law
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an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia
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Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi
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It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac
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That all people held as slaves should be set free.
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considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
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Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg
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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham
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was a series of statues meant to help reconstruct the U.S. after the Civil War
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the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted