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A bill issuing Missouri as a slave state under the condition that slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Rebellion of black slaves that took place in Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner.
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A war between Mexico and America over the territory in America the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, establishing the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S.-Mexican border.
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An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
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Five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
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Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe involving slavery on a plantation that brought attention to the poor conditions.
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A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1859 which emerged from a debate over the legality of slavery in Kansas.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery, this also repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom during the Dred Scott case.
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An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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The 19th presidential election. Lincoln's election served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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Representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America.
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Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina was one of the first battle that started the American Civil War.
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Abolitionists V.S. Angry Plantation Owners, went on for 4 years and was fought for the rights of slavery in America
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The Battle of Antietam was one of the most important events of the American Civil War because the battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and resulted in a Union victory. It also led to President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
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The battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia and was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
