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Becomes a country -
Doubles the size of the United States -
A compromise between the North and South: The compromise limits slavery to the South -
Slaves by the thousands escapes 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 gro 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 others escape and a voice for the enslaved -
The south forces a law which allows slaves to be pursed 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 debates with pro-slavery after Lincoln elected. -
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The state is the first to leave the United States over slavery after Lincoln elected -
The state is the first to leave the United states and are now a separate country called the Confederacy -
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 enslaves persons are now free -
General Sherman invents "total war" as he destroys everything in his path -
To Ulysses S. Grant and the civil war ends -
US army arrives in Texas and tells slaves they are free: Texas kept slavery after it was illegal. Juneteenth celebrates the day the last person were freed