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An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement
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The Republican Party was officially formed in Jackson, Michigan when a group of men who belonged to various splinter parties met and adopted the name Republican.
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a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.
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John Brown and his company of Free State volunteers murdered five men settled along the Pottawatomie Creek
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refers to the time between 1854-58 when the Kansas territory was the site of much violence over whether the territory would be free or slave.
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15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
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United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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a major tax reduction in the United States, creating a mid-century lowpoint for tariffs.
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a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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The Lecompton Constitution, the second constitution drafted for Kansas Territory, was written by proslavery supporters. The document permitted slavery, excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, and allowed only male citizens of the United States to vote. There were three separate votes on the Lecompton Constitution: December 21, 1857, January 4, 1858, and August 2, 1858. In the final vote, residents of Kansas Territory rejected the Lecompton Constitution.
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a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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unsuccessful last-minute effort to avert the Civil War. It was proposed in Congress as a constitutional.
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The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a government set up in 1861 by seven slave states of the Lower South that had declared their secesion from the Union
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An American protective tariff law. The act is named after its sponsor, Representative Justin Morrill of Vermont.
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Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in November of 1860. He took office several months later,
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A Confederate Government is an alliance formed by a group of independent states .The Confederate States of America existed between 1861 and and 1865.
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The American Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
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It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War.
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The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
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The Confederacy enacted the first American military draft on April 16, 1862.
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The Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost.
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The National banking Act, passed by Congress during the Civil War, established a system of nationally chartered banks
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
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Union enacts conscription. 1863. Drafts are held for all men of the Union, but mainly immigrants were taken in. Those wealthy enough could pay their way out.
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In July 1863, attempts to enforce a Civil War draft measure resulted in the worst civil disturbance in New York City's history
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Fought from May 31 to June 12, 1864. It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles.
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President Lincoln meets with a delegation of Confederate officials to discuss a possible peace agreement.
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The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.
