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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended as part of the Compromise of 1850 and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished.
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The republican party is formed in 1854 and in the 1856 election Buchanan(democrat) defeats Fremont(new republican party).
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In this case slaves were to be property and basically they did not qualify for basic rights.
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This raid was led by John Brown and was an effort to initiate an armed slave result by taking over the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
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Abraham was elected president and brought a different perspective to slavery.
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South Carolina was the first state to revolt, followed by the other states to form the Confederacy in the south.
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The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.
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One of the major first battles and took place in Virginia. The Confederates won and shocked the North.
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This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and is claimed a Union victory because Robert E. Lee withdrew to Virginia.
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This was a major Confederate victory and had about 30,000 combined casualties.
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This was a major turning point in the war and was a Union Victory that stopped Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders near the Appomattox Court House in Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union.
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On this day Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre and would later die. And because of this Andrew Johnson would become the president.
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The 13th amendment was passed and banned slavery in the U.S.
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The 14th amendment was passed and said all persons could not be denied equal protection of the law.
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The 14th amendment gave the right to all African American males to vote in the U.S.
