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Missouri Compromise
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Compromise of 1850
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Shots Fired at Fort Sumter
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The Confederate Army defeats the Union army at the First Battle of Bull Run in VA
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The ironclad ships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia battle, ending in a draw
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Battle of Anietam
Casualties total 26,000; Lee's invasion of North ends in retreat -
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclomation
eventually frees all slaves -
Battle of Gettysburg
Turning point in was- Union armydefeats the Congederate army -
Confederate troops surender town of Vicksburg
after 40 days of nonstop cannon assultrs from Union troops -
Gettysburg Address
by President Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetary on the site of the battlefield in Gettysburg -
Union army captures Atlanta, Georgia
Sherman's troops burn the city to the ground -
Lincoln reelected
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Confederate Gen. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA
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Lincolns assassination
