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Underground Railroad
Helped runaway slaves get from south to North. -
Republican Party
Republican party founded in wisconsin and believed in anti-slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Violent political confrontations dealing with slavery or ant-slavery. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln wins the presidency! -
South Carolina Suceded from Union
South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. -
First shots in Civil War
Union base Fort Sumter fired upon by confederate soldiers. -
Battle at Antietam
Known as the bloodiest battle in the civil war. Union won the battle of antietam. -
Battle at Fredricksburg
Battle between Robert E. Lee's army and the union army in virginia. -
Battle at Gettysburg
This was the turning point in the war for the union. -
Battle at Vicksburg
The Union controlled the entire Mississippi River and the Confederacy was effectively split in half. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln Issued during the war that freed all the slaves. -
Battle at Chancellorville
Stonewall Jackson killed. -
Battle at Atlanta
Union Destroyed the Confederates Major city, one of them. -
Battle at Richmond/ Appomattox court house
Union makes Robert E. Lee Surrender in Richmond Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
John Wilkes Booth kills Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater.
