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Missouri Compromise
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The Wilmot Proviso
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Compromise of 1850
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John Brown's Raid
Breaks into the Artillery and tries to arm the slaves for them to fight with him for them to be free. The slaves did not fight with him. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
South Carolina votes to withdraw or secede from the Union -
Confederate States of America are founded as an independent republic
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Lexington
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Battle of Antietam
Robert E. Lee pushes into Northern territory, fights the Union -
Emancipation Proclamation
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Freeing enslaved persons in states still in rebellion
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The Second Day Battling in Gettysburg
Union Army holds their line (a stalemate) -
The Third Day in Gettysburg
Lee makes a mistake (sends General Pickett with 15,000 men to make massive attack; Pickett's Charge- 7,000 Confederates dead in 30 minutes; Failed to break the Union's line) -
Vicksburg
Union fights to control the Mississippi River -
The First Day and the First Battle of Gettysburg
Confederates push the Union Army way back -
Battle in Vicksburg ends
The battle is over and the Union won the battle -
Lincoln was re-elected for President
Lincoln was re-elected for president and put an end to all slavery...PERMANENTLY -
Sherman's March
William Tecumseh Sherman scorches his way to Atlanta, passing through Georgia, setting all the houses on fire, killing the cattle and burning their food sources to show them what it's like to really be in a war. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Declaration of Independence. -
Lincoln's Assassination in Ford's Theater
Lincoln was warned to not go into public unescorted, when John Wilkes Booth came up into the booth he was sitting in, and shot him in the back of the head. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
The right to vote, "shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude"
