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California would be a free state and it proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law.
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Proslavery forces held that alleged fugitives were not entitled to a trail by a jury.
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A network of safe places that runaway slaves could get North.
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Established popluar soveriginity -the right for citizens to vote for or aganist slavery.
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Anti slavery forces believed that spread of slavery threatened the free states.
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Being in free territory didn't make a slave free.
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Lincoln had challenged Douglas to a series of debates. Limcoln would win the debate.
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An attempt to ignite a general slave.
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In February 1862 a Union Army invaded western Tennessee by General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Ulysses Grants captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River.
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McClellan was leading his army toward Richmond, he met a Confederate army commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. After a series of battles, Johnston was wounded, and command of the army was passed on the Robert E. Lee.
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McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee, and the two sides fought on September 17 near a creek.The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with casualties totaling more than 26,000.
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Lee's army had defeated the Union Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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The South looks to tought to be beaten.
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Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
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In April and May, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee seceded, bring the number of Confederate State to 11.
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The South defeated the North again at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
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As General Stonewall Jackson returned from a patrol on May 2, Confederate guards accidentally shot him in the left arm.
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Stonewall Jackson was shot and killed.
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Lee is pushed back to Virginia by the Union Army.
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Union gain control of the Mississippi River.
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The Union destroyed one of the Confederates major city.
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Confederates surrender to end the Civil War.
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Abolished slavery in the United States,
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While Lincoln and his wife were at Ford's Theatre in Washington and man crept up behing Lincoln and shot Lincoln in the back fo his head.
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Union cavalry trapped John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia tobacco shed and shot him dead.
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In 1868 Presidential Election, Grant won by a margin of only 306,000 votes out of 6 million ballot casted.
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The South and North had to rebuild becasue the damge done to the North ann South
