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This is an event that occurred in October of 1859, in which John Brown raided Harper's Ferry. This was an armed slave revolt.
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South Carolina voted to secede from the United States, and became part of the confederacy fighting for slavery
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy, and led their major decisions.
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The Union and Confederacy fought at Gettysburg, it was one of the most brutal battles in the war
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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.