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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in maintain the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri in 1819 . The United States have twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was an extremely public rise agreement that deepened the divisions in the country over the issue of slavery. The law was part of a agreement between free and slave states that stopped the secession of states where slavery was legal. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide b whether or not to allow slavery within their countries. The Act served to revoke the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which forbidden slavery.´. -
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Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white that favored John Brown to cayse an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Election of 1860
The Republican Party fielded its first candidate in 1856, was putting a end to expansion of slavery. Abraham Lincoln was seen as a moderate on slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation led the way to total an act of slavery in the United States. With the Emancipation Proclamation, the aim of the war changed to include the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the Union. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by joining and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was known as the Battle of Sharpsburg in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. -
Compromise of 1850
The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
A slave (Dred Scott) who had permanent home in a free state and territory was not as a result of entitled to his freedom. African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
