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California entered the union, the boundary between Texas and New Mexico was settled, fugitive slave act required the return of runaway slaves, and slavery is abolished from Washington DC.
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The decision of the states position on slavery was left up to the people. The people from both sides wanting the state on their side made a battlefield with much blood giving the nickname bleeding Kansas.
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Being a slave, Dred Scott was property not a person, therefore he did not have rights and was not a free man.
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Starting South Carolina, seven other states left the Union to form the C.S.A (Confederate States of America) and elect Jefferson Davis as their president.
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Lincoln answers all question he is asked, he wins the 1860 election without being on the ballot in the south. Comes in to office after the country is split.
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Attack on the fort for soldiers not leaving and instead recieving supplies to stay. Begins the civil war.
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First major battle. Confederate victory. People came to watch the battle like a sporting event.
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Major Union victory. This is the turning point of the war for the Union.
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Freed all slaves from rebellious states. Allowed for the formation of the 54th regiment, an all black regiment from Massachusetts.
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Robert Lee Surrenders to the Union, ending the civil war.
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John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln point blank in the back of the head at a theater. Making Andrew Johnson, a man from the south, the new president.
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Terrorist group set on instilling fear in African Americans to keep them as slaves.
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Andrew Johnson, continually vetoed all of congresses decisions and fired a man when congress made it illegal (setting him up). Going nowhere with reconstruction congress impeached the president for breaking the law.
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The winner of the election, and the 18th president of the United States of America, Ulysses S. Grant was more of a figure head to congress. They continued their reconstruction plan and passed the 13th-15th amendments to the constitution making slavery illegal, black suffrage and made anyone born in the United States a citizen.
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Rutherford Hayes, won the election in 1876. As president he ended reconstruction removing Federal soldiers. This caused organizations like the KKK to take hold.
