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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Crimean War
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2 events
-Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Republican party form -
3 events
- Buchanan defeats Fremont and Fillmore for presidency -Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber -Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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Civil war in "bleeding Kansas"
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3 events
-Panic of 1857
-Tariff of 1857
-Hinton R. Helper published "The Impending Crisis of the South" -
2 events
-Dred Scott decision
-Lecompton Constitution rejected -
Lincoln-Douglass debates
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Brown raids Hapers Ferry
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3 events
-Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency
-South Carolina secedes from Union
-Crittenden Compromise fails -
Seven seceding states from Confederate States of America
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4 events
-Confederate government formed
-Trent Affair
-Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
-Morrill Tariff Act passed -
First Battle of Bull Run
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Lincoln takes office
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Period: to
Four upper South states secede
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Fort Sumner fired
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2 events
-Confederacy enacts conscription
-Homestead Act -
10 events
-Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
-Battle of Shiloh
McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
-Seven Days' Battles
-Second Battle of Bull Run
-Naval battle of Merrimack
-Battle of Antietam
-Prelimainary Emancipation Proclamation
-Battle of Fredericksburg
-Northern army seizes New Orleans -
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Alablama raids Northern shipping
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3 events
-Union enacts conscription
-New York City draft riots
-National Banking System established -
5 events
-Final Emancipation Proclamation
-Battle of Chancallorsville
-Battle of Gettysburg
-Fall of Vicksburg
-Fall of Port Hudson -
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Napoleon III installs Archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico
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Alablama sunk by Union warship
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4 events
-Sherman's march through Georgia
-Grant's Wilderness Campaign
-Battle of Cold Harbor
-Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency -
4 events
-Hampton Roads Conference
-Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
-Lincoln assassinated
-13th Amendment ratified -
Reforms Bill expands British electorate