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If a runaway slave was caught in the north, he/she would be returned to the south.
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The Republican part was formed
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Harriet Stowe wrote anti-slavery novel "Under Tom's Cabin"
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Kansas and Nebraska overturned the Missouri Compromise, which caused violent fighting known as bleeding Kansas.
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John Brown moved east to plan a rebellion now known as the Raid on Harper's Ferry
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John Brown led a raid on a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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Southern states was upset and decided to seceded from the United States
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The seceded stated form The Confederate States of America.
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The Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War.
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President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves
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Union forces, under Ulysses Grant took Vicksburg, and this victory would prove to be the turning point of the war in the western theater
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General William Sherman led the Union Army in capturing Atlanta
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Union troops captured Savannah, Georgia.
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General Lee surrendered his army at the Appomattox Court House
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President Lincoln was assassinated at Fort's Theater in Washington
