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Hariet 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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Buchanan Wis Election
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Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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Period: to
Civil War in Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott Decision
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Lecompton Constitution Rejected
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Panic of 1857
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate
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Brown raids Harpers Ferry
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Lincoln wins election
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South Carolina Secedes from union
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Confederate States of American Form
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Lincoln suspends writ of Habeas Corpus
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First Battle of Bull run
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Fort Sumter fired on
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Grant takes fort Henry and Fort Donelson
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Battle Antietam
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National Banking system established
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Battle of Gettysberg
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
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Thirteenth Amendment ratified
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Lincoln assassinated