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Missouri compromise
Decided where slave states would be; above the line free, below slave. -
Nat Turner slave rebellion
Slave rebellion that killed 65 people -
Wilmot Proviso
Failed proposal to ban slavery in new Mexican territory -
War with Mexico
Mexo-American war over Texas territory -
Compromise of 1850
Got rid of the Missouri compromise and introduced popular sovereignty and fugitive slave law -
Fugitive Slave Act
Allowed escaped slaves to be brought back into the south -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book that exposed the horrors of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed Missouri compromise and added popular poverty -
Bleeding Kansas
Battle between northerners and southerners -
Dread Scott Case
Court ruled against and he went back into slavery -
John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry
Small raid with intention to start a slave uprising -
President Lincoln Election Date
Abe Lincoln Elected President -
South Carolina Secedes
SC becomes the first state to leave the US -
Formation of the Confederate State of America
The Confederate states are created -
Fort Sumter
SC attacks US fort and Takes it over -
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest battle of civil war, northern win -
Vickburg
Battle that gave union control of Mississippi river -
Gettysburg
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Appomattox Courthouse
Where the south surrendered
