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This compromise admitted California in the Union as a free state. It also set Texas-New Mexico border. And it also outlawed the buying and selling of slaves
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The Kansas-Nebraska act became a law. This act uses sovergnity to decide the question of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska territories. This causes the North and South to compete to settle in territory.
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Northern and Southern Democrats split over running Douglas for president. Democratic party splits allowing Lincoln's election as president
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Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas leave the Union and join the Confederacy.
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The Southern States form their own country called the Confederate States of America having Jefferson Davis as their President.
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Lincoln is elected as President. He makes the decision to restore the Union, or basically to get all the states back into one country.
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The South attacks Fort Sumter in South Carolina, starting the war
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Lincoln announces something called the Union Blockade, where the Navy will attempt to stop the supplies from leaving and entering the Confederacy. The Blockade is successful and weakens the Confederates during the war.
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Kentucky joined the Union side after confederate troops invaded it in September 1861
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Lee's army crossed the Potomac River into western Maryland. The 70,000 Union troops there dwarfed Lee's army of 40,000
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Abraham Lincoln passes an executive order to free all slaves and helps lay the groundwork for the Thirteenth Amendment
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Lincoln issued a proclamation of Amnestry and reconstruction. The Proclamation offered forgiveness to all southerners
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The Battle of Gettysburg is a major battle that made progress for the North Side, also helping them win the Civil War
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President Lincoln delivers his famous 272 address on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Leader of the Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Appomattox, Virginia.
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16th President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. by actor John Wilkes Booth.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave African American citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans
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Mississippi's governor asked for help from the federal government, President Grant refused saying that the South continuing problems
