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The compromise between slave and free states
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The court decides that Dred Scott is to still be a slave
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John Brown raided Harper's ferry and captured hostages but was eventually captured.
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The Confederates fire upon a union fort.
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A confederate victory where the Union soldiers were caught by surprised and slow to react
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The first field battle to take place on union soil and was the bloodiest single day battle in American history.
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A proclamation that freed nearly 3 million slaves.
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The Union drove the Confederates back into defensive lines surrounding the city of Vicksburg.
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A battle between the union and the confederates had the most casualties of the entire war.
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The Union assaulted missionary ridge and drove the confederate army back from Tennessee to Georgia.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
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John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln in a theater
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A series of statutes meant to help rebuild the country after the civil war.
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Samuel J. Tilden outpolled Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached
