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Missouri Compromise is created
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Important Events Before and During the Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act is passed
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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Dred Scott decision in the Supreme Court
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
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South Carolina secedes from the United States
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Abraham Lincoln takes office
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Battle at Fort Sumter
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1st Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Shiloh
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed into law
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Sherman's March to the Sea
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Reconstruction Begins
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Confederacy surrenders at Appomattox
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated