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The first issue of the liberator was published January 1 1831
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The Compromise of 1850 was five bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of States acquired during the Mexican american War
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle toms cabin
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was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States. He was sworn into office after Franklin Roosevelt suddenly died.
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the Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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SC was the first state to succeed from the union
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was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as Battle of First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War