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The underground railroad was started in the 1700's and didnt end to about 1850-60._______________https://www.google.com/search?q=underground+railroad&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS817US817&oq=underground&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i59j0l3.6207j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state
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Anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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on this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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In Nov. 6. 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas.
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Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter.
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Union army marched from Washington against the Confederate army. (http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-bull-run)
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Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, the Battle of Shiloh took place from April 6 to April 7, 1862, and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War (1861-65).(http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-shiloh)
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Confederate attempts to invade the north.(http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-antietam)
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Declares "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders April 9, 1865
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Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
