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Gold was found and everyone goes here wanting a piece of that action
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5 parts that made helping slaves escape more punishable, added a free state,banned slave auctions in D.C., slaves voted on in new land
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Increased tensions between North and South over slavery
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Dred Scott challenges slavery by the supreme court. This lead to the decision that the government couldn't control slavery
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John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry in order to create a rebellion. Unfortunately no slaves joined which led to his capture
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South Carolina is the first to leave the union
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The Confederate States of America are founded
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One of the first battles where the North and the South fought
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Surprise attack launched against Ulysses S. Grant which resulted in the 9th bloodiest battle of the Civil War with 23,000 people killed in 2 days
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Robert E. Lee invades the North but retreats after he sees how many people he killed. 22,000 in one day
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An act freeing all enslaved people in all confederate states
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Union fights to control Mississippi river
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3 day fight that was some of the most brutal during the entire war
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William Tecumseh Sherman burns everything on his was to Atlanta to make Southerners understand the horrors of war
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African Americans are given education, are helped finding work, and providing food. "40 acres and a mule"
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Slavery was now illegal
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Lincoln was assassinated at Fords Theater
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South divided into 5 districts and controlled by military
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Equal protection under law and grants citizenship to anyone born in U.S.
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Hundreds of thousands African Americans can now vote
