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Doubles the size of the United States -
Between North and South: The compromise limits slavery to the South -
Slaves by the thousands escape to the north -
Andrew Jackson ignores the Supreme Court and forces Indians to give up their lands and march 2,000 miles west. The Cherokee lands were given to American farmers to grow cotton, which required more slave labor -
The Us takes all western states from Mexico. The fight begins over slavery in the new states gained from Mexico -
Tubman becomes a conductor helping other escape and a voice for the enslaved -
The South forces a law which allows slaves to be pursued anywhere they escape to -
Supreme Court rules that slavery is permanent, cannot be banned, and African descent have no inherent rights. -
Lincoln becomes a senator after the debates with pro-slavery opponent. -
All Southern states declare they have left the United States and are now a separate country called the Confederacy -
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The state is the first to leave the United States over slavery after Lincoln elected -
Lincoln declares a 90-day war to keep the country together, but the North loses the first battle while politicians watch and picnic -
Lincoln states that all enslaved people are now free -
US army arrives in Texas and tells slaves they are free: Texas kept slaver even after it was illegal. Juneteenth celebrates the day the last people were freed -
to Ulysses S. Grant and the Civil War ends -
General Sherman invents "total war" as he destroys everything in his path