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The Missouri Compromise
Rise between pro-slavery and anit-slavery -
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The Mexican War
Between United States and Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay takes the floor of the Old Senate Chamber -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Introduced a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories -
Bleeding Kansas
boundary between slave and free territory and instead -
‘Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight
Attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane -
Dred Scott Decision
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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory -
Election of 1860
Demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War -
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South Carolina secedes from Union
Applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan
Blockade the South throughout the Civil War until the war -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
American Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor -
Battle of Antietam
Faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
Expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta -
Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Eyewitness account of the surrender that led to the end of the Civil War
