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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The Republican Party forms
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Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre
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Civil war in "bleeding Kansas" Starts
Ends in 1860 -
Dred Scott decision
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Confederate Army Formed
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the U.S. President
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Grant takes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
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Union enacts conscription
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Final Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Alabama sunk by Union warship
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Sherman's march through Georgia
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Lincoln defeats McClellan for presidency
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Thirteenth Amendment ratified
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Lincoln Assassinated