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Abraham Lincoln was born in the 12th of feburary 1809
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Lincolns biological mother died whem Abraham was 9 and they were living in Idiana.
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Lincolns father remarries Lincolns 2nd mother
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Abe was elected to the post master to his town at same time he also worked on a family farm and taught himself how to read.
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Lincoln was elected to the senate and became a powerful member. he was a lawyer by this time.
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Lincoln married Mary Todd against the wishes of her family. They had 4 sons.
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The Wilmont Proviso was ment to outlaw slavery in any terrotory in the U.S. might get from Mexico. The southerners didn't want this to pass as it would make more free states than slave states.
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Slaves accused of being fugitives chould be held without a warrent and they had no right to a jury trial. Instead a fed. commissioner ruled on each case. The north ruled for this as most abolitionist lived there and they wanted slavery to end. The south was different as they wanted their runaways back.
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The compromise of 1850 said that California which was half on the Slave and half on the non-Slave line. The Califonia territory was split in half top half non-slave, bottom was slave. This was a compromise for the north and south as neither got exactly what they wanted.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was against slavery and was vouched for by the north. The southerners disliked the book as it gave them a bad name.
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The kansas-nebraska act created the terrotories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands and repealed teh missouri compromise of 1820. It let settlers choose slave or non-slave. The south did eventually let this happen as both north and south sent people to go and vote for them.
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Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent and bloody events involving anti-slavery action. This was due to whether or not Kansas should come in as a slave state. The north was appalled that this could happen. The south cheered them on.
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THe Republican Party reformed and was both an anti-slavery and sectional party that waned to protect the Northern views. The republicans grew quickly in the north and they blalmed bleeding kansas on the democrats.
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John Brown who had murdered proslavery Kansans before wanted to provoke a attack. To do this he planned to capture teh weapons in the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. Brown rallied 18 men and they were caught and convicted.
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Abe becomes new White House resident as the new President
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The southern states said if Lincoln won the presidency they would secede from the United States. They argued on states rights and felt the government could not interfere. South Carolina was the first to secede and was followed to create the Confederate states of America. The U.S. said this was unconstitutional and that they did not have a right to do it. They failed to compromise on what to do and ended in the beginings of a civil war.
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yankee doodle and pop goes the weasal were two very popular songs
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The Emancipation Proclamation abolioshed slavery
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stolen by Eddie Cuthbert of philadelphia
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United States begins its love for roller skating
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Lincoln serves as president for the second time.
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The south surrenders to the north ending Civil War.
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John Wilkes Booth fatally shoots Lincoln at Ford's Theater while watching a play with his wife.
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A statue of Abraham Lincoln was made by a french sculptor
