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Congress made it so the people of a state vote to decide whether or not to have slavery.
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Made more severe punishments on slaves who escaped to the north and on the people that helped them.
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A fight led by John Brown and his sons to give black people weapons. Their deaths caused a motivation to stop slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln, a republican against slavery, was elected president. This made people in the south scared that they would not be allowed to have slaves anymore
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South Carolina voted to secede from the union. Which was the start of the confederates and the rebellion.
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The confederates formed their own nation called the confederate states of america.
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The first real battle of the civil war. It made both sides take the civil war more seriously.
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General Lee invades the north. They lost.. If they would have won the British would have fought on their side
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It was the battle over the Mississippi River and the last confederate base. The union won which let them split up the south so they could attack.
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The last offensive fight of the confederates. Their loss at this caused them to fight the rest of the war as a defensive war
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General Lee ordered general Picket to try and flank the union soldiers. This killed tons of confederates and caused them to lose the battle at Gettysburg.
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The Gettysburg address was given giving slaves the courage to fight the confederates to gain their freedom
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Made slavery illegal in the U.S. forever.
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The Confederates surrender ending the civil war.
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This caused the confederates to see the horror of what they caused. It also gave the citizens of the south fear of the union which helped contribute to their surrender.
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