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Missouri would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state. No state over the 36 parallel will allow slavery.
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Presented by Henry Clay, this Compromise would help the disputes between the North and South.
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A series of violent political confrontations related to the issue of free states and slave states.
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Lincoln was the first republican president. He wanted to stop slavery.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
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The Confederacy fired on Union occupied Ft. Sumter, starting the Civil War.
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This was the bloodiest day of the entire war.
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Lincoln said that all slaves in the Confederate states are free.
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This helped the Union finish the Anaconda Plan.
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This was the bloodiest battle in the entire war. It lasted 3 days.
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Lincoln delivered one of the most known speeches in American history. Dedicating Gettysberg as a national cemetery.
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Lincoln is Re-elected as president. Provoking the South even more.
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Shermen marched his men towards the sea near Georgia during the Civil War.
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Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War. Grant gave very friendly surrender terms for Lee's men.
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Lincoln was shot in a booth while watching a play by John Wilkes Booth.
