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Secret network of houses used for transporting slaves into the North
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A series of resolutions set to prevent fighting between the North and South to break out. The slave trade was abolished, and the Fugitive Slave Act was amended.
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Act passed in 1854 which allowed for the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they want slaves in their state or not.
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A Supreme Court case that ruled Dred Scott not free due to the fact that he used to be a slave, even though he moved into the free states.
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States in the Southern United States began declaring their independence after Lincoln was elected president.
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Presidential Election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln won against three other opponents; John C. Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, and John Bell.
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The first battle at Bull Run was known as the first major battle of the Civil War. It ended in Confederate victory.
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Known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the battle of Antietam ended in victory for the Union and helped Lincoln begin the process of issuing his Emancipation Proclamation.
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A series of six major battles ear Richmond Virginia, resulting in Confederate victory.
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President Abraham Lincoln establishes a proclamation that deems all slaves in the rebelling Confederate states free.
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Union General Ulysses S. Grant marched his troops across the Mississippi River and drove out Confederate forces.
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General Robert E. Lee invaded the South and won a smashing victory over Union forces, allowing him to further march into the North. This is an image of Abraham Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address, written in 1863.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union at Appomattox. This image was taken at the surrender in 1865. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/spring/cw-surrenders.html
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After all the destruction caused from fighting in the war, the North and South worked to rebuild all buildings, railroads, and anything else demolished in the events of the war.
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President Abraham Lincoln gets shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play in Ford's Theater. Lincoln dies the next morning.
