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For all events The Missouri compromise was made to balance the free and slave states. -
The Fugitive slave Act was an act passed saying southern slave owners had to return northern slaves.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act took away indivisual rights of staes to become a slave free or slave state.
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John Brown lead an armed slave army to a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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South Carolina, one of the richest states in the country, is the first to secede in the immediate aftermath of Lincoln’s election.
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First Major battle of the Civil War.
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British public opinion is divided over the Civil War, but economic ties with America are strong and the British are keen to regain an influence in the New World. Two Confederate commissioners, on their way to persuade the British to support the Southern cause, are halted by a Union naval commander. Britain reacts strongly, threatening a war that neither Britain nor the Union wants, but is eventually appeased by Union efforts.
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The thirty-seventh Congress approves of the enrolment of black troops.
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The bloodiest day of the Civil War. Abraham Licoln threatened to order slave emancipation.
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Abraham Lincol passes law saying Afrivan American's are free.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in an attempt to bring the Southern cause to the North, invades Pennsylvania but is routed by the Union army. Lee fails to capitalise on early military advantages, leading an infantry charge to a decisive defeat. Both sides are exhausted; the Union fails to press advantage as Lee retreats. Confederate forces are kept out of Union territory for the rest of the war.
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General William Sherman commands the Union army to capture the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta and embark on a campaign of destruction aimed at breaking the will of the Confederate army.
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Union captures Fort Fisher in North Carolina.Jefferson Davis armed slaves which was rejected by congress.
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Union reinforcements arrive at the Appomattox Courthouse and capture General Lee forcing him to surrender. This marks the end of the Civil War.
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The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery is ratified.