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Laws passed in the southern states that controlled enslaved people and denied them even basic rights.

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Law passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850; stated that if a slave escapes into a free state.

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Crisis over California wanting to enter the Union as a free state. Three key parts: 1. CA comes in as a free state; 2. Utah and New Mexico territories given popular sovereignty; 3. Stronger Fugitive Slave Law passed; 4. Slave trade outlawed in Washington, D.C.

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Due to the violence that broke out in that territory between abolitionists and pro-Slavery groups.

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Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States as an anti-slavery Republican, but without any support from the South.

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Divide the Confederacy in half by gaining control of the Mississippi River and suffocate each half using a blockade of the Southern coast.

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Took effect on January 1, 1863. Lincoln freed enslaved African-Americans BUT ONLY IN "REBELLIOUS TERRITORIES" NOT EVERYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!

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All of the states in the American South that left the Union in 1860-1861. Also known as the CSA or the Rebels.

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The opening shots of the Civil War were fired here in April 1861, when South Carolina troops launched an attack on a federal fort in that state.

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Took place in September 1862 in Maryland. This battle was a Union victory, but is known as the single bloodiest day of the war.

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Man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in April of 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

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Man who became president in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth - member of the Democratic Party.

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Gave full citizenship to African-Americans and provided them with equal protection under the law.

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This gave African-American men the right to vote.

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Elected President in 1876 after a much-fought-over vote recount. He withdrew Federal troops from the South a part of the Compromise of 1877 to keep Democrats happy and support the recount making him Prez.