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Mexican War
The Mexican War tried to put an end to slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
It allowed California to be a free state.No slavery limites in Utah or New Mexico territories -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowing colonist of a territory to decide if slavery would be allowed within a new state's bprder. -
Bleeding Kansas
A term used express the violence during the settleling of the Kansas Territory. -
Brooks Sumner Fight
Brooks beat up Bumner . Expansion of slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
Confirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves to the western territories. -
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Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
To Destroy every slave -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
It made South Carolina leave the union -
Battle of Fort Sumter
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Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln made a proclamation that states slaves in the rebellious states shall be forever free. -
Battle of Antietam
It was a turning part in the civil war. First confederate invasion of the north. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysberg Address Speech. -
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Sherman's March
A march from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia. To scared the population into abandoning the Confederate. -
The Union's Anaconda Plan
Union stratergy on winning the civil war. -
Confederate Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Lee surrendered to confederate Army. -
Missouri Compromise
It allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Maine to be a free state. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Notherners has to return runaway slaves to their owners. -
Election of 1860
President Lincoln wanted to get rid of slavery and his opponents didn't.
