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It created Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise.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