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The Compromise of 1850 defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
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legal case in which the U.S. Supreme court ruled that a slave who resided in a free state could never be citizens of the United States.
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John Brown tried to take over an arsenal, I think it was a success because it got people thinking.
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Lincoln represented The Republicans. He wanted to leave slavery alone where it existed, or ban it in all territories.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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James Buchanan was sworn into office as the 15th president.
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The bombardment and surrender at Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started The American Civil War.
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The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of The American Civil war.
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The proclamation declared "that all slaves" within the rebellious states, "shall be free."
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle fought in the American Civil War, and North America.
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The purpose of the Sherman's marching to the sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was on of the last major battles of the American Civil War.
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Lincoln was the 16th president of The United States.
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Liberation is freedom from limits on thoughts or behavior.
