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1820 Congress passed the Missouri compromise
After months of bitter debate, Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, a bill that temporarily resolves the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interests in U.S. history. -
1854 Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repeals the Missouri Compromise.
This 1854 bill to organize western territories became part of the political tornado of sectionalism and railroad building building , splitting two major political parties and helping to create another, as well as increasing north south relations -
1863 A spy comes to Longstreet and informs him that he has seen the Union army moving nearby.
This information surprises Longstreet, because General J. E. B. Stuart is supposed to be tracking the Union army with his cavalry. -
1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, or Confederate army, and the Army of the Potomac, or Union army, fought the largest battle of the American Civil War.
Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy, When the battle ended, 51,000 men were dead, wounded, or missing -
1863 Chamberlain awakes and his regiment begins moving north again toward Gettysburg.
On July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee ordered Lieutenant General James Longstreet to attack and roll up the Federal left flank. -
1863 Longstreet tries to convince Lee one last time to swing the army toward Washington, D.C., but Lee again refuses.
On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end.
