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Nat Turner's Revolt
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Henry "Box" Brown escapes slavery
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Dred Scott Case
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John Brown raids Harper's Ferry
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
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Fort Sumter
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Period: to
Civil War
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Virginia secedes from the Union
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Sea battle between the Monitor and Merrimack
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Fredericksburg
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Richmond burns
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Appomattox Court House
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant