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It established a line between free and slave states in the Louisianna territory. It also made Main a free state.
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It was a war fought against Mexico to gain more land for the United States. Afterward Mexico had lost about one third of their land to the U.S. The land included nearly all of present day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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It had laws that admitting California as a free state and created two territories with the question of slavery. It also ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.
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It provided more laws regarding runaway slaves and made harsher punishments for people who interfered in their cature.
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It was the violence that broke out in Kansas between proslavery and free-state settlers.
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It allowed people in the Kansas and Nabraska territories to decide for themselves if they want slavery or not within their borders.
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Southern Congressman Preston Brooks beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions build over the expansion of slavery.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dred Scott case affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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John Brown lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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South Carolina left the Union after Abraham Lincoln won the election.
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Abraham Lincoln won the election.
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Confederates fire on Fort Sumter. The Civil War begins.
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It was a strategy that the Union used in the Civil War against the Confederates.
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It was the first battle in the Civil War that took place on Union soil.
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It was the thing that president Abraham Lincoln did to free the slaves.
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It was the most important battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won the battle.
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Union General William T. Sherman led soldiers on a march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
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Confederat General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union.