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Texas admitted into the Union as slave state
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Westward Expansion
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Wilmot Proviso
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The Mexican American War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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California Goldrush
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Free - Soil Party
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Law passed
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published
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Bleeding Kansas
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Republican Party formed
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Kansas Nebraska Act passed
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Charles Sumner assaulted in the Senate
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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Secession and creation of the Confederate States of America
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Abraham Lincoln elected president
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The Civil War
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Attack on Fort Sumter, SC
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Shiloh
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Homestead Act passed
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Slavery prohibited in US territories
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Emancipation Proclamation issued
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1st All-Black Union regiment formed (54th Massachusetts)
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Draft Riots
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Gettysburg Address
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Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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Reconstruction
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Freedmen's Bureau established
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Lincoln assasinated
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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13th Amendment ratified
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Ku Klux Klan organized
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Reconstruction Acts of 1867
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14th Amendment ratified
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Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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15th Amendment ratified
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Transcontinental Railroad completed
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First African Americans serve in Congress
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Amnesty Act of 1872
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Panic of 1873
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Compromise of 1877
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Federal troops withdrawn from the South