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The final issue was December 29,1865.
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As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Harrit Betchers anti slavery slavery novel
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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In 1856 Buchanan successfully defeated Republican candidate John C. Fremont and was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, confirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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Led a group on a raid on Harper's Ferry Virginia
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Elected 16th president of the U.S.
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Abraham Lincoln caused South Carolina to secede.
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It was the begging of the American Civil War
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The battle lasted longer than expected.
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During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, calling on the Union army to liberate all slaves in states still in rebellion as “an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity.
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Considered to be the important engagement of the American Civil War.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia.
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This was one of the last battles of the American Civil War; It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
