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Congress passed a bill granting missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of Louisiana.
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Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolution, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
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Congress passes Fugitive Slave Act, therefore creating more underground activity.
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Slave fugitives begin to publish their stories about being a slave, the public seeing for their point of view.
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Northerners increasingly ignore the federal Law and support the underground efforts.
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Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories.
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A legal case in which in U.S. Supreme Court rules that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom. African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
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This is where Abraham Lincoln debates for the republican candidate for the senate in Illinois.
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John Browns raid was an attempt by the white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt.
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This was the day Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
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he bombardment/siege and ultimate surrender of Fort Sumter by Brig. General P.G.T. Beauregard was the official start of the Civil War.
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A skirmish involving over 3,000 soldiers, Philippi was the first battle of the American Civil War. Learn more about the Battle Of Philippi
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Also known as First Manassas, the first major engagement of the American Civil War was a shocking rout of Union soldiers by confederates at Manassas Junction, VA.
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The Battle of Wilson’s Creek, aka Battle of Oak Hills, was the first major battle of the Western Theater and is often called the "Bull Run of the West."
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The Battle of Santa Rosa Island was a failed attempt by Confederate forces to take the Union-held Fort Pickens
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he battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War.
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19455 casualties
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23741 casualties
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25251 casualties
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26134 casualties
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24645 casualties
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Petersburg, Virginia
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From chatanooga, Tenessee to Atlanta, Georgia.
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From Atlanta georgia to savannah, Georgia
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From the wilderness, Virginia to Petersberg, Virinia
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Washington DC
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Durham, North Carolina
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Appomattox, Virginia
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