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california was filling up because of the amount of gold in the state, if they became a state it would not be a slave state , upsetting the balance slave and free states
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created and unstable relationship between the north and the south
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carolina succeeds from union
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Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas -
founded as an independant republic. Guaranteed slavery in every state, banned tariffs, limited presidency to one 6 year term
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Troops were low on supplies at Fort Sumter. Davis orders fort to surrender. Confederates open fire and capture the fort.
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while people were having a picnic they got to watch as a bloody battle happened between the north and south. over 2000 northerners were killed and over 1000 southerners were killed
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confederates launch suprise attack on grant, more soldiers died on that die then the entire revolution, the war of 1812, and the mexican-american war combined
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lee pushes into northern territory, fights union general george mcclellan
lee kills/wounds 22,000 men in one day
lee retreats
extremely crucial victory for north -
a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after january 1st 1863
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William Tecumseh Sherman goes on march and burns everything from Tenesee through Atlanta
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the freedsman bureau is established , feeding and clothing refgees
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slavery is banned forever in the usa
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lee Surrenders to Grant, ends war
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lincoln gets kill in booth
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divided former confederate into 5 military districts.
strict requirements to be readmitted to the union, you had to allow blacks to vote and ratify the 14th amendment. -
U.S.G is elected president of the US
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The right to vote "shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude."
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banks go bankrupt, sets of a full depression
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basically destroyed reconstruction
