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This act was used as a way to "Tighten restrictions on foreign born Americans" , This is also the period that the United States , was on the brink of war with France. -
Although this war lasted for almost another 8 years, this war was a part of the Napoleonic Wars fought in the Iberian Peninsula. -
This act had been signed into law by former president, President Andrew Jackson. This was a law that was made for indigenous people to relocate somewhere else.
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. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
11 Southern states seceded from the union , making an independent government. -
On this day, confederate troops were said to fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. -
Lee took control of the confederate army, after this, he officially renamed the Army of Northern Virginia. -
Since Lincoln knew that people were starting to support abolition more then he wanted, he decided that he would take matters into his own hands, by starting to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. -
This is a time period where Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant. -
On this day, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Washington, DC.