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This was a series of safehouses and routes used to transport slaves to freedom in the North
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A series of bills that would help avert crisis between the North and South
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This was a antislavery novel published by Harriet Beacher Stowe in 1852, this book made racial tenisions higher in the U.S.
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Many violent confrontations in the United States coming from political strife over legality of slavery in Kansas
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This was a bill passed to allow the people of Kansas to chose whether or not they wanted slavery.
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This federal decision made it so that slave owners could take their slaves and then free them when this was originally not case, this was one of the first big steps to ending slavery in the United States.
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This election was held on November, 6th 1860 between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Brekinridge, Stephen A. Douglas and, John Bell. Abraham Lincoln won the majority vote becoming the 16th president of the U.S.
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On December 20th 1860 South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the union, many states followed suit and they ended up forming the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)
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On April 12th the Confederate Army attacked the Northern stronghold, Fort Sumter, Only 1 person and one horse died and it only lasted one day but kicked off the bloodiest war U.S. history.
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This was the first major battle of the Civil War and it was
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This battle was fought in the western theater of the war in Tennessee it was the bloodiest battle until the battle of Antietam it was a decisive union victory
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This was a series of six major battles that went on from June 25th to July 1st !862, it was a big win for the south stopping the northern army from marching on Richmond, the southern capitol.
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This was the bloodiest day in United States history with a combined death toll of 22,717 dead or wounded.
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This was a speech made by Abraham Lincoln that abolished slavery in the United States
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This was the blast major military action in the Vicksburg campaign that lasted from May 18th to July 4th 1863 this was a major victory for the north it was the last major stronghold on the Mississippi river.
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This was the bloodiest battles in U.S. history with a combined total causality count of over 600,000 men wounded or dead it was a major victory for the south..
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This was a speech made by Abraham
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This was a period where the North helped the South rebuild after the war
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At the Appomattox Courthouse Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April,9th 1865
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On April,14th 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater while he was watching a show. His death shook the nation.
