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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
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the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
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2,896 men killed from the north and 1,982 men killed in the south. enlisted 500,000 men in the union to protect Washington D.C
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President Lincoln is struck with grief as his beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies from fever, probably caused by polluted drinking water in the White House.
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the 9th bloodiest battles of the entire civil war. more men died in this battle than any in the war of 1812.
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extremely crucial victory for the north
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a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1st 1863
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union fights to control the Mississippi river
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confederates push the union army way back
the union army holds their line
general E Lee makes a mistake -
7,000 confederate men dead in 30 minutes and failed to break the unions line
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William Tecumseh Sherman scorches his way to Atalanta burns everything in his path burns fear into the southerners.
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Bans slavery forever in the united states
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lee surrenders to grant ending the war
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all military commands approved by Ulysses S. Grant
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senate can review/ remove any official appointed by Johnson
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divide former confederacy into 5 military districts. strict requirements to be readmitted to the union. ratify 14th amendment
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great general... bad politician
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The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history
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the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude
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banks go bankrupt set off-on depression southern democrats regain power in the house and senate
