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at the constitutional convention in 1787 delegates spent a great deal of tie planning how the government would wrk best.
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The differences between the states became major.
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The federal government ws too involved in the state's buisness.
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Thomas Jefferson approved the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
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Missouri and Maine joned the Us at about the same time.
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Missourri Compromise is an imaginary line If the state is above the line, it is a free state and if the state is under the line, it is a slave state.
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California asked to join the US as a free state.
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Slaves cant be sold in Washington D.C. Utah and New Mexico decided on slavery. California became a free state. North had to catch runaway slaves for he South
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Kansas and Nebraka jined the US and they voted obe a free state or slave state.
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Araham Lincoln was elected as the president of the United States and he was against slavery and he promised to leave slavery alone but he didnt let it spread to new states.
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South Calorina was the first state to seced from the US.
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Mississippi was the second state to leave the US.
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Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana had left the US.
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Texas became the 7th state to leave the US.
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Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederate States.
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The LInes of Conflict were clearly drawn
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Union troops marched toward the city of Virginia while the Confederate defended.
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The states that seceded from the u.s joined together and created the confederate states in1861.
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The Confederate army raided Fort Sumter.
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The Confederates won the battle of Manassas.
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Both North and South lost a large amount of soldiers. kkkkk
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Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Porclamation.
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Lincoln signed the Proclamation into law.
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in the beginning o the civil war, many southern victories kept the union army from capturing the confederate capital at richmond, virginia. the south's learder, robert E.lee, decided it was time to make a bold move. he wanted a victory on northern soil because he was sure this would make the union want to end the war once and for all.
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In June 1863,Ulysses S. Grant captured Vicksberg.
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Robert Lee surrenders to Ulysses Grant in Virginia.
