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Confederate General who led southern forces against the Union Army in the American Civil War.
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He was the 18th President of the United States. He worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
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This meant that goods or benefits were being taken from the loser in a competition, election or military victory.
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This was was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War.
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This was the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.
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This was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.
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This was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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The Dred Scott v. Sandford case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the labor law and constitutional law.
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These were a series of seven debates between the current Illinois Senator and the candidate for senate.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
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This was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. It freed all slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln regulated the Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases.
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This battle was fought around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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This was one of the most well-known speeches in history given by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan.
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He showed leadership skills as he served as the United States' 16th President.
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This was the process of rebuilding the South after the American Civil War.
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This was a scandal involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.
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These were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement.