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Missouri Compromise is created
made missouri free state and there was 11 frre states and 10 slave states -
Compromise of 1850 is created
was a series of bills that wanted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies -
Fugitive Slave Act is passed
Declared that all runaway slaves were to be returned home -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Anti-Slavery novel -
Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed into law
Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
Dred Scott decision in the supreme court
Declared that his family was free -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Planned an armed slave rvolt -
South Carolina secedes from the United States
First state to secede -
Abraham Lincoln takes office
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Battle at Fort Sumter
Started American Civil war -
1st Battle of Bull Run
1st major land battle of the civil war -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederates won first day but defeated the second -
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single day battle in American History -
Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
Claimed all slaves to be free -
Battle of Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle with the laargest number of casualties in the civil war -
Sherman's March to the Sea
purpouse to frighten Georgia into not siding with confederates -
Reconstruction Begins
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union -
Confederacy Surrenders at Appomattox
one of the last battles of the civil war -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
Shot in a theater
