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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Slave_kidnap_post_1851_boston.jpg

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African American exodus to Kansas (April 17,1877-January 1, 1900)

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African American exodus to Kansas (April 17,1877-January 1, 1900)

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African Americans "Exodusters" left the south for Kansas. Nicodemus, Kansas was founded by Rev. W. H. Smith (black minister) and W. R. Hill (white land developer).

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With Hayes election the Republicans promised to remove troops from the South bringing an end to the Reconstruction. Started racial segregation and disfranchisement to black voters.

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the US Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not extend to women.

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removed voting and office-holding restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy.

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First African American in Congress (1870)

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First African American in Congress (1870)

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Hiram Revels became the first African American to serve in Congress. After the Reconstruction ended in 1877 white Southerners pushed African Americans out of government

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Allowed anyone of any color, race or previous servitude to vote.

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Fourteenth Amendment ratified (July 9, 1868)

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Fourteenth Amendment ratified (July 9, 1868)

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Gives everyone born in the US citizenship and equal protection.

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Thirteenth Amendment ratified (December 6, 1865)

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Thirteenth Amendment ratified (December 6, 1865)

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Abolishes Slavery in all of the United States.

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)

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Surrender at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)

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Lee surrenders to Grant ending the Civil War with a Union victory.

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Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-July 3, 1863)

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Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-July 3, 1863)

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Lee’s army of 75,000 met Meade's 90,000-man Union forces. Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

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Slavery Prohibited in US territories (June 19, 1862)

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Slavery Prohibited in US territories (June 19, 1862)

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New Mexico to Washington and Dakota were barred from slavery.

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First Battle of Bull Run(Manassas) (July 21, 1861)

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First Battle of Bull Run(Manassas) (July 21, 1861)

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Confederate wins and Union realize the war will not be easily won.

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Secession and Confederacy (December 20,1860-February 8,1861)  

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Secession and Confederacy (December 20,1860-February 8,1861)  

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South Carolina feared that Lincoln would end slavery and seceded from the United States. Later more states followed and the South formed the Confederate States of America.

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After passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, people for both sides flooded into Kansas, violence soon erupted

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Congress passed as part of the compromise of 1850, northerners had to cooperate with returning runaway slaves back south.

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California enters as a Free State, but not forbidding slavery in other territories acquired from Mexico.

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80,000 men arrived in California in hopes to make a fortune.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)

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United States gets the south west part of the country.

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Groups moved west to find peace or establish religious communities.

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The Mexican- American War started April 25, 1846. Polk wanted to buy California and parts of New Mexico. Mexico refused and war broke out after Mexican force killed sixteen US soldiers.

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Manifest Destiny, the idea to spread the democratic system from coast to coast.