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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti-slavery states until the admission of Maine as an anti-slavery state. After becoming a pro-slavery state, it allowed for an imaginary line to be drawn dividing the former Louisiana territory into pro and anti-slavery divisions. This was ended after Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. -
The Kansas-Nebraska
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 permitted residents in the Kansas and Nebraska regions ti choose locally whether to permit subjugation -
Raid on harpers ferry
On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. -
election of 1860
the 1860 presidential race set four hopefuls against each other. -
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Abraham Lincoln
He is the sixteenth president of the united states; spared the union amid the american civil war and liberated the slaves; was killed by booth. -
Battle of Antietam
Clash of Antietam, additionally called Battle of Sharpsburg, a definitive engagement in the american civil war (1861- 65) that stopped the confederate progress on Maryland with the end goal of increasing military supplies. -
Emancipation Proclamation
the Emancipation Proclamation was an official request issued on January 1, 1863, by president Lincoln liberating slaves in all segments of the united states not then under union control. -
The Battle of Gettyburg
The battle of Gettyburg fought in July 1863 was union victory that stopped confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.