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A package of 5 bills passed in september of 1850.
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A bill that split Kansas and Nebraska into two seperate states.
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A landmark decision that stated an African American could not be an American citizen and could not sue because of this.
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A series of seven debates in which each candidate tried to win control of the Illinois legislature
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A town where a white abolitionist tried to start an armed slave rebellion
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the United States president.
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A border war that was a series of very violent political confrontations about anti-slavery.
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The battle at Fort Sumter was the begining of the American Civil War
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The battle at Bull Run was the first major land battle of the American Civil War
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The battle at Antietam was the first battle to take place on Union soil.
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Gave freedom to the ten states that were in the rebellion at this time.
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The Gettysburg address was President Abraham Lincoln's most well known and famous speeches that he gave during his presidency.
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A prison the Confederates used to hold prisoners of war. This prison held more prisoners at any time than all of the other prisons combined.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. It was a calculated plan to try to revive the confederacy.
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There are two different things reconstruction refers to. It refers to the entire country repairing after the Civil War, and it refers to the transformation of the Southern United states.
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