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The Missouri Compromise
Maine was given as a free state. Missori was givin as a slave state. Then an imaginary line divided the free states from the slave states. -
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Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
California entered the union as a free state. The SouthWestern states entered the Union with popular sovereignty. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The states people were able to chose for themselves if they were going to be a free state or slave state. -
Abraham Lincoln's election
Abraham Lincoln won the votes. -
Secession of the states
The southern states seceeded from the Union, creating the Confederacy. -
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was inaugurated -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter of South Carolina. -
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
The Confederacy won the battle. -
The Emancipation Proclomation
President LIncoln ordered all slave to be free. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Confederacy won, but they lost one of their best generals to friendly fire, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. -
Battle of Vicksburg
This was a great victory for the Union, because it cut off the Confederacy since the Union took the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The turning point of the war. The bloodiest battle that the U.S has ever seen. -
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln gave a short speech, which was dissapointing but got very famouse. -
The End of the war
Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appomattox Court House. -
Assasination of President Lincoln
5 days after the Civil War ended, President Lincoln was assasinated, in hopes the war would start again.