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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti-slavery states until the admission of Maine as an anti slavery state. After becoming a pro-slavery state, it allowed for an imaginary line to be drawn, dividing the former Louisiana Territory into pro and anti-slavery divisions. This was ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. -
Election of 1860
During the 1850s, the slavery problem was getting out of hand. North born South sympathizer James Buchanan attempted to get a supreme court judge to vote proslavery, and this terribly backfired, allowing Abraham Lincoln to with with no support from the South. After this, 7 states left the Union and became the Confederate States of America -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation made 3 million slaves free under the Union, if they escaped to the North. The Proclamation was issued as a war measure. It ultimately widened the goals of the Civil War -
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Battle of Gettysburg
This battle, the bloodiest of the Civil War, is often described as the turning point in the war. It stopped the Northern Invasion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and gave new energy to the Union Army. It was a Decisive Union Victory.