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A slave uprising in Virginia, where Nat Turner and his followers killed around 60 white people. Nat Turner and 100 others were exectuted. State goverment in Virginia starts talking about abolishing slavery.
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The United States goes to war and gains land in the south-west
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The party slips over slavery, ensures the election of Lincoln
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Harriet Beecher Stowe writes the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book attacks slavery causing anger in the south and influences the north.
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The Republican Party are outraged by the Kansas Nebraska Act and oppose the idea of extending slavery, Lincoln becomes one of the early leaders of the party.
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The case, heard by the US Supreme Court, holds that slaves are always the property oftheir masters, even if they are taken into ‘free states’ or territories. Gains approval from the south and the north pushs for a ban on slavery.
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Brown raids the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to steal guns and start a slave rebellion. The Union army stops him and Brown is hanged.
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The first battle of the Civil War, where Confederate forces fired on a Union fort. Marked the official start of the war.
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Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. Directly led to the Civil War.
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First battle in the civil war that is won by the south
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Invasion was repelled but many lives were lost.
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A major Confederate victory that devastated Union forces. It showed the strength of Southern defenses and prolonged the war.
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Lincoln’s order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states. It changed the war’s purpose to a fight against slavery.
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Lincoln is re-elected, ensuring the continuation of his war efforts
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Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the war ended.