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Compromise of 1850
When california became a free state. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Trying to attract railroads in the North. Illinois inventor Stephen Douglas introduced the act in 1854. -
Bleeding Kansas
Fearing that kansas would become the next slave state. A band of pro-slavery men burned down lawrence in 1854. Then an abolutionist gang led by john brown killed five border ruffians at the Pottawatomie Massacre. -
Election of 1860
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president. -
The Confederate States of America
They established thier own government. -
First Battle of bull run
The first battle of the civil war. In Prince William County, Virginia. -
Emmancipation Proclamation
An order carried out by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The first battle in the three day series of the civil war. Over 46,000 lives were lost. -
Lincoln Re-Elected president.
Abraham Lincoln was elected for his second term. -
Abraham Lincoln Assasinated
He was killed in a theater by John Wilkes Booth.