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(no exact day of month) Attempt at compromise betweeen north and south states after disputes over land after mexican-american war.
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(no exact date, began around 1854) Attacks on opposing sides between abolitionists and southerners.
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Opened kansas and nebrasksa for settling, repealing missouri compromise. Determines that free or slave status of states would be determined by popular sovereignety.
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Decision by supreme court that blacks are not American citizens and therefore could not sue in court.
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Debates between electoral parties over which controlled illinois legislature. Slavery was main topic.
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"Stonewall" Jackson's confederate troops take town of Harpers Ferry Maryland, (major supply garrison foe union) by the surrender of Dixon Miles union troops
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the U.S.
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First battle of the Civil War. Confederate army bombarded Major Robert Anderson's union troops at Charleston South Carolina
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Union victory at battle of Antietam causes Lincoln's emancipation proclomation
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Speech given by president Lincoln, stating that freeing slaves would be a goal of the civil war along with unifying the union.
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Victory by Union troops which stopped General Lee's second invasion of the north. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. 50,000 casualties.
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Hugely influential speech given by Lincoln, revisiting the topics of human equality stated in the declaration of independence and declaring the Civil War a "struggle for the preservation of the union"
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prison for holding captive Union soldiers which had horrible living conditions
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One of the last battles of the Civil War, Lees troops surrender to union forces after trying to retreat.
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Abraham Linclon is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford theatre in Washington D.C.
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Rebuilding the south after a lot of destruction during civil war