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Henry Clay shaped a compromise to accept California as a free state to the Union and to create a more effective fugitive slave law.
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Douglas introduced a bill that would repeal the Missouri Compromise and establish popular sovereignty for the territories.
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In this Supreme Court case, being in a free territory did not make slaves free and slaves are considered property.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the presidential election without getting any electoral votes from the south so South Carolina decides to leave the Union.
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Beauregard makes the first attack on Fort Sumter to take it from the Union.
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McClellan and Lee met and had the bloodiest single day battle in American history with the Confederacy taking the victory.
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President Lincoln issued a new law to free all enslaved people in the rebellious states.
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This battle was a major turning point in the war for the Union because they finally defeated the Confederacy and made it harder for them to get more men.
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William Sherman, commander in the Union army, targets civilians in the South and burns down every house in his path and destroys railroads.
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At the Appomattox Court House, Lee surrenders to Grant. Union wins!!
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The 14th Amendment is drafted and states all people born in the U.S are citizens.
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In the 1868 presidential election, Ulysses S. Grant becomes the new President after Johnson was filed for impeachment
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Radicals introduced this new Amendment so states can't keep people from voting based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Congress passed a series of Enforcement Acts to stop the violence from the KKK and to use federal troops in areas where the KKK was present.
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The panic of 1873 created a five-year-depression, diverted the North away from the South's problems and the Republicans slowly retreated the policies of Reconstruction.
