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the Wilmot Proviso suggesting that slavery be banned in any territory acquired through the Mexican Cession. It passed in the house
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the FREE-SOIL PARTY. They wanted to keep new territories and states free of slavery. They nominated former President Martin Van Buren against the Whig candidate
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California was admitted as a free state.
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This event was highly controversial. this made it a crime to aid a runaway slave
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The Kansas - Nebraska act was turned into a law
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thousands of so called Border Ruffians crossed the border to vote from the slave state of Missouri
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Northern Democrats and Free-Soilers to
are not the same as create the Republican Party
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Supreme Court case about an enslaved man named Dred Scott fueled the abolitionist cause. Scott was a slave to an army doctor in Missouri,
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marked the beginning of the civil war in response lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve in the army for 90 days.
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Ended both sides hopes for a short war.
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on september 17,1862 was the bloodiest day of the civil war.union and confederate casualties combined exceeded 23,000
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was lees greatest victory see illustration below.
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this document freed enslaved people in all areas that were in all areas that were in rebellion against the united states.
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The skirmish that took place on July 1, 1863, developed into the historic three-day battle of Gettysburg.
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One such group was the Ku Klux Klan, which formed in 1866 and began terrorizing African Americans and whites who supported their rights.
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The Fifthteenth Amendment was protecting the voting rights of African Americans males
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To protect African American voting rights, Republicans quickly pushed the Fifteenth Amendment through Congress in February 1869.
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Instead of working for wages, freedmen could receive share of their employer's crop, a system known as sharecropping.
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Those who broke with the party over the enforcement Acts and corruption
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Conditions in the South strengthened the Liberal Republicans, those who broke with the party over the Enforcement Acts and corruption scandals in the Grant administration.