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Underground Railroad
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Compromise of 1850
This had laws admitting California as a free state. Also created Utah and New Mexico territories. It also settled a Texas-New Mexico boundary. It also enned the slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Bleeding Kansas
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act was passed by congress to allow the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision was the Supreme Court's ruling that if you live in a free state/territory you were not a free. That is because they did not consider them a citizen.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter was first constructed in 1829 as a coastal garrison. Most famous because this is the site where the first shots of the Civil War happened. On April 13, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort. -
First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Shiloh
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Seven Days' battle
This battle had 6 different along the Virginia Peninsula. There was 195,000 totals soldiers in the battle. Confederates won the battle.
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Battle of Antietam
Happened at Antietam Creek. It was Lee's attempt to invade the North. Battle's outcome would be vital as it would shape America's future. To this day it still remains the deadliest one-day battle in all of Ameria's military history.
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Reconstruction
New laws were put into place in the south called the "black codes". In 1867 blacks gained a voice in government for the first time. After the blacks gained a voice, the KKK came around for whites to regain supremacy in the south. -
Appomattox
The appomattox happened in a tony village west of Petersburg, Virginia. What happened there was the most significant surrender to take place during the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee was the Confederacy's most respected commander had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Lincoln's assassination
Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C when John Wilkes Booth went to the presidential box and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln..
