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compramise of 1850
It was a law that was passed to the United States that allowed the states to pick if they were gonna be slave or free states -
Election of 1860
It's where president Lincoln became president and all southern states wanted to separate from the United States because he was against slavery -
Fort sumter
It's where general P.G.T. Beauregard in command of the confederate forces opened fire on the Union garrison holding fort sumter Major Robert Anderson garrison commander surrendered the fort -
Battle of Antietam
The Union won the battle of Antietam although it was the bloodest one day battle in the civil war -
Ku Klux Klan
A large group of people who tortured African Americans after the civil war -
Fourteenth amendment
Gave everybody excluding African American men citizen rights
