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Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom from slavery.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress
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John Brown and several followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry
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fort Sumter was fired on by the south which started the civil war
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The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclamation is issued that all slaves in rebellious states were freed. It was a turning point into the war which made the war be a battle for human freedom.
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Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. It was the bloodiest day of the American Civil War.
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One of the most brilliant military campaigns by the Union Army forcing the Confederacy to surrender Vicksburg.
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It stopped Gen. Lee's advance thru the north. It was the bloodiest battle of the war.
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Forced the Confederates to retreat to Georgia.
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This Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.
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The surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Courthouse allowed for the Union army to redistribute forces to take back the south.
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Abraham Lincoln assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was a series of statutes meant to help readmit the southern states into the Union.
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Andrew Johnson had long wanted to dismiss the Secretary of War, Edwin M Stanton but congress forbidd him to dismiss Andrew to fire Edwin and when he did congress impeached him.
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Samuel Tilden outpolled Ohio's Rutherford Hayes in the popular vote and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes 165 with 20 votes uncounted.
