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This compromise created a line between the North and South to separate the free states from the slave states. It introduced Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state creating an even number of 11 free states and 11 slave states.
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This slave rebellion led by Black American slave, Nat Turner, was the only effective and sustained slave rebellion. Somewhere between 55-65 people were killed, 51 of them were white.
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War between Mexico and America over Texas that began on April 25, 1846 and ended on February 2, 1848.
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A failed law of 1846 that would have outlawed all slaves from the land gained by the US that we call the Mexican Cession.
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The compromise that solved the sectional dispute between the North and South. California entered as a free state and Utah and New Mexico started using popular sovereignty to vote on the issue of slavery.
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The Compromise of 1850 led to the introduction of the Fugitive Slave Law which allowed Southerners to recapture runaway slaves in the North regardless of the fact that it was free territory.
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A historical fiction best selling book of the 19th century published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. It depicted slavery as evil, which of course, infuriated the South and inspired more people in the North to join the abolitionist movement.
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Law by Stephen Douglas that used popular sovereignty to give territorial residents the right to vote for or against slavery. This law ended the Missouri Compromise line in the western territories, but did not declare it unconstitutional.
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Illegal voting by Missouri residents gave Kansas slavery even though its people had voted against it. Therefore, in 1856, a war between Kansas and Missouri began that we call Bleeding Kansas.
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Slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom after travelling with his master to Wisconsin (a free state) from Missouri (a slave state). The Supreme Court declared two things: Scott did not have the right to sue because blacks were not citizens, and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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John Brown, a white American abolitionist, set off to lead a slave rebellion and raid a federal arsenal (Harper's Ferry). He failed, then, he was caught and executed. He was, of course, praised by the North and hated by the South.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th President of the United States over the Northern Democratic candidate, Stephen Douglas, and the Southern Democratic candidate, John Breckenridge. Lincoln was elected without a single Southern vote!
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Not long after Lincoln was elected, South Carolina seceded from the Union, which started a trend of more Southern states seceding in the next year.
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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas gathered to form the Confederate States of America after seven Southern states had seceded.
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The first battle of the Civil War was at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861 that ended in a Confederacy victory the next day.
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This battle was held in Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862 and is known as the bloodiest day in American history. It was a Union victory with 23,000 killed or wounded. In fact, there were so many bodies that they were piled on top of each other on "Bloody Lane," a long ditch dedicated to the bodies.
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Battle from May 18, 1863 to July 4, 1863 that resulted in a Union victory and gained them the Mississippi River.
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This battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863 was the turning point of the Civil War.
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Battle on April 9, 1865 near the Appomattox Court House in Virginia that led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendering to the Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
