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Allowed for balance between slave and free states.
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Also tried to ease tensions and find a compromise between slave and free states.
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Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed for popular sovereignty so basically every state was able to pick whether slavery was allowed or not.
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Supreme Court ruled that slaves weren't citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories so basically undoing the Missouri Compromise.
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Lincoln's election leads an already tense country to continue to descend into division.
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The Southern States officially secede from the United States.
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The first Confederate win that signified that the war would not be over quickly.
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Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter and it marked the official beginning of the Civil War.
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Declaration by Abraham Lincoln that all slaves in the Confederate states are free.
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Another important win for the Union that split the Confederacy in half.
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The turning point of the war that allowed the Union protect itself from further advances north and was the bloodiest battle.
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The Union marched straight into the heart of the Confederacy and did a military campaign.
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General Lee surrendered to Grant and this ended the war with a Union win.
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Officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude unless it was a punishment for a crime.
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Protects the rights of citizens and prohibits states from denying equal protection.
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Gave African American men the right to vote.