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Helped runaway slaves get from south to North.
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Republican party founded in wisconsin and believed in anti-slavery.
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Violent political confrontations dealing with slavery or ant-slavery.
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Lincoln wins the presidency!
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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Union base Fort Sumter fired upon by confederate soldiers.
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Known as the bloodiest battle in the civil war. Union won the battle of antietam.
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Battle between Robert E. Lee's army and the union army in virginia.
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This was the turning point in the war for the union.
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The Union controlled the entire Mississippi River and the Confederacy was effectively split in half.
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Lincoln Issued during the war that freed all the slaves.
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Stonewall Jackson killed.
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Union Destroyed the Confederates Major city, one of them.
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Union makes Robert E. Lee Surrender in Richmond Virginia.
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John Wilkes Booth kills Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater.
