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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Republican party forms.
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Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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Buchanan defeats Fremont and Fillmore for presidency; Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate chamber.
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"Dred Scott" decision; Lecompton Constitution rejected.
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Panic of 1857; Tariff of 1857.
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Hinton R. Helper publishes "The Impending Crisis of the South."
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Lincoln-Douglass debates.
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Brown raids Harpers Ferry.
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1856-1860 Civil war in "bleeding Kansas."
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Lincoln wins four-way race for presidency; SOuth Carolina secedes from the Union; Crittenden Compromise fails.
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Seven seceding states form Confederate States of America.
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First Battle of Bull Run.
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Confederate goverment formed; Lincoln takes office March 4); Fort Sumter fired upon (April 22).
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Four upper South states secedes (April-June); Morrill Tariff Acts passed; Trent Affair; Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus.
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Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
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Seven Days' Battles.
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Second Battle of Bull Run; Naval battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor.; Battle of Antietam.
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Fredericksburg; Nothern army seizes New Orleans.
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Confederacy enacts conscription; Homestead Act
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Battle of Shiloh; McClellan's Peninsula CAmpiagn.
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New York City drain riots.
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Napoleon III installs Arhduke Maximilliam as emperor of Mexico.
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Final Emancipation Proclamation.
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Battle of Chancellorsville; Battle of Gettysburg; Fall of Vicksburg; Fall of Port Hudson.
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Union enacts conscription.
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National Banking System established
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Alabama raids Northern shipping.
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Alabama sunk by Union warship.
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Sherman's march through Georgia; Grant's Wilderness Camppaign; Battle of Cold Harbor.
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Lincoln defeats McClellan for Precidency.
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Hampton Roads Conference; Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.
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Lincoln assassinated.
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Thirteenth Amendment ratified.