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Compromisse of 18050
a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress -
The Dred Scott trial verdict
was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt -
Fort Sumter was fired upon
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Battle of Bull Run
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia -
Siege of Vicksburg
Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi -
Battle of Antietam
It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac -
The Emancipation Proclamation is issued
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Battle of Gettysburg
considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Missionary Ridge
part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War -
XIIIth Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg -
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
was a series of statues meant to help reconstruct the U.S. after the Civil War -
Andrew Johnson's impeachment
the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. -
Election of 1876
one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted
