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Package of 5 seperate bills passed in the U.S. in september. Defused a 4-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and free states of the north.
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Opening new lands for settlement allowed white male settlers in those territiories to determine through poplular sovereignty.
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violent political confrontations in the United States.
Anti-slavery
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Blacks and slaves could not become citizens of the United States. Faught in court for freedom, unsuccesful.
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7 debates in Illinois to win control of the illinois legislature. Main topic was slavery, and lincoln lost.
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Historic town where Maryland and Virginia meet. Civil war site of John Brown's raid.
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Immediate cause of southern resolutions of secession.
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Site where the shots starting the civil war were fired.
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The first major land batte. (Civilwar.org)
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Part of the Maryland campain. Battle of sharpsburg in the south.
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Proclamation, made by Lincoln, so that all slaves under the confederacy were "Forever free"
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Union, confederate forces during the civil war ended. General Robert E. invasin of the north.
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Preserves the former camp sumter confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War.
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Final engagment of confederate states, surrendered to the union army. One of the last battles of the civil war.
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Days after the civil war, at ford's theatere. John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln.
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Complete history of the entire country from 1865-1877 following the civil war.