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Compromise of 1850
Five bills passed to defuse tension over new land aquired from the Mexican-American War. -
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Bleeding Kansas
The settlers wanted to decide for themselves wether slavery was allowed, fighting then broke out. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Dred Scott Decision
The supreme court negates a slaves rights to take legal action. -
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
The Presidential debates between Republican Lincoln and Democrat Douglas. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown led 18 men into an armory to cause an uprising of slaves. -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln was elected the 19th President of the United States. -
Fort Sumter
The first battle of the war took place here. -
Antietam
The first major battle on Union soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order turning all slave states into free ones. -
Gettysburg Address
A speech given by Lincoln to rally the Union after Gettysburg. -
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Andersonville Prison
A camp where Union Prisoners of War were held. -
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Reconstruction
The south and some of the north pieced itself back together after the war. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
One of the final battles, Robert E. Lee was out matched by Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in a theatre after the war was won.