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The Missouri compromise split the north and south states at the bottom of Missouri making southern states slave states and northern states free states.
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Popular Sovereignty allowed new states to vote on whether they were free or slave, but most westward expansion was by pro-slave farmers.
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The gold rush was when California was flooding with gold and created a larger movement west from settlers.
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The compromise ensued California as a free state, land from mexico would have popular sovereignty, slave auctions were banned in D.C., Texas cannot advocate for slavery, and the fugitive slave act was enforced.
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Pro slave and anit slavery people flooded into kansas to try to get Kansas to become free or slave by voting. Tensions grew and people started murdering the other side.
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The Kansas Nebraska act created two new states that left slavery up to popular sovereignty. This made tensions rise in kansas because many new citizens from both anti-slaves and slave states to vote.
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John Brown was an anti-slave martyr who tried to captivate a slave revolution, but no slaves showed up when he tried to siege a federal armory.
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Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860 which was considered the last straw for the south. This is because, Lincoln was outspokenly against slavery.
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South Carolina secedes from the union in protest of the slavery debate. This leads to 6 more states seceding in less than two months. This was the wake up call for both north and south there would have to be a war.
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The first battle of the civil war which was extremely gruesome and the north lost twice as many soldiers
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The confederates launch a surprise attack and there was a huge massacre of 23,000 in two days.
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Lee fights the Union General McClellan and kills 22,000 men in one day. Its the bloodiest battle in American history. Lee retreats because of how many people he had killed.
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Lincoln declares that all slaves are free and invites them to come and fight for the north
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The last major confederate base was put under siege by grant and was a union victory which let them control the Mississippi river
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The fight at gettysburg which the union won when Lee surrendered
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When Lee ordered 15,000 troop to break through the union line at Gettysburg and 7,000 were killed in 30 minutes.
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William Sherman plows through south as the war wraps up and burns everything to show the south how brutal war is.
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Abe was killed by John Wilkes Booth at a play. This was a tragic loss to the reconstruction of America
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The Ku Klux Klan was formed by southerners to rebel against the north's punishment of the south. Most members were confederate soldiers and anyone who supported Republican Reform.
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This divided the confederate states into five districts. It also forced the south to ratify the 14th amendment and let African Americans vote.
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The fourteenth amendment freed slaves and protected them by law. This impacted the north by allowing freed slaves to fight in the union army for their forever freedom. It impacted the south agriculturally because all the manual labor slaves did had to be done by employed white men.
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The Fifteenth amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. This angered southerners who supported slavery because they still saw African Americans as much less intelligent
