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The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the Missouri Compromise it made two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also led to riot's know as bleeding Kansas. -
A intense abolitionist named John brown lead a raid of harper's ferry. Brown and his men captured the federal arsenal of weapons that was being stored there, hoping to inspire a slave revolt. -
The election between Douglass and Lincoln -
Union and confederate forces fought near Manassas junction Virginia. It was the first major battle of the civil war. People would come and bring picnic tables to watch the fighting. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia often known as the beginning of the civil war. -
Abe Lincoln signed a document freeing slaves in rebelling states. -
Often known as the bloodyest battle in the civil war. The battle of Gettysburg was a major turning point in the war. -
Was a military's campaign that send a brigade of soldiers all around the coast of confederate territory. They had strict scorched earth orders to destroy anything that would be useful to the confederates. -
Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army forces to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. Slavery was abolished, Ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments