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Ends the mexican American war gains 1.2 million square miles and sparks the compromise of 1850
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california is admitted as a free state, new mexico and utah could decide to be a free or slave state, no sale of slaves in Washington D.C., texas would give up claim to new Mexico territory, and the fugitave slave Act would all be results of this
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a purchase of land to construct railroads
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created popular sovereignty to allow voters to decide to be either a free or slave state
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The legal definition of a slave is determined as property and not a person so slaves could not sue
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election and south Carolina is the first state to leave the united states. when Lincoln was sworn into office 6 other states left the United states forming the Confederate states of America.
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A military base in the south controlled by the north was ordered to be taken by Jefferson Davis this is the first act of war igniting the civil war
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union was defeated by general Thomas Stonewall Jackson in Virginia.
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general lee defeats general McClellan for the first time in 7 days
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General Grant and Buell defeat Johnston's army killing around 25,000 people total
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The first Conscription Act, passed by the Confederate Congress made all white males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five eligible to be drafted into military service.
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This battle was fought between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside,
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lee invaded the north to be met by McClellan and battled to a draw with the south retreating it is considered a Union victory and allowed President Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves in rebellious states.
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this battle is known as General lee's greatest victory in the war but also known as the war that killed general Thomas "stonewall" Jackson
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this battle is known as the turning point of the war that ensures the confidence that the north will win the war.
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the fall of vicksburg was very crucial because it cut the south in half
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Lincoln is reelected ending any hope of a negotiation for peace for the south.
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this was first time in America that civilian' houses and towns were targeted. Sherman marched from Atlanta to savannah burning down cities and towns.
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This government funded organization set out to help the newly freed slaves so they weren't treated as unfairly as they once were.
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general lee surrenders to grant in Virginia at Appomattox courthouse
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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilks Booth at a theater leaving Andrew Johnson to take over as President
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the 13th Amendment abolished all slavery in America
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this terror organization was called the klu klux klan and was formed on the soul fact of hating black people
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this Amendment stated that everyone who was born in the United States was automatically a citizen and that all former CSA politicians and generals could not hold any form of office
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This Amendment states that no citizen could be denied the right to vote based on color or race or previous servitude
