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Was the Civil War inevitable?
Was the Civil War inevitable?
1787
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Northwest Ordinance bans slavery north of Ohio River and east of the Mississippi.
1788
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Constitution is ratified with the 3/5th Compromise.
1800 - 1810
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Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana enter Union as free states.
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama enter Union as slave states.
1819
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Number of free states = 11; Number of slave states = 11
Missouri applies for statehood as a slave state.
1821
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William Lloyd Garrison begins to publish abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
1821
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Missouri enters as a slave state; Maine enters as a free state. The law draws a line at latitude 36 30: North of that line slavery was banned.
1845
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Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass
1848
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US signs treaty with Mexico: acquires Mexican cession territory.
1849
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Harriet Tubman escapes on the Underground Railroad.
California applies for statehood as a free state.
1850
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Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850.
California enters as a free state.
Two new territories, New Mexico and Utah, are open to slavery.
The slave trade in D.C. is ended.
A new Fugitive Slave law is passed.
1852
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
1854
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Congress passes the Kansas Nebraska Act; the issue of slavery in both states will be decided based on popular sovereignty.
The Republican Party is established to oppose the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law.
1856
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“Bloody Kansas”: violence breaks out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
John Brown massacres 5 proslavery men in Pottawatomie, Kansas.
Senator Charles Sumner is caned in the Senate.
1857
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The Supreme Court hands down the Dred Scott decision: African-Americans are not citizens; Missouri Compromise line is unconstitutional.
1859
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia; Brown is captured and hung
1860
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In November, Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, wins the election of 1860 with less than 40% of the vote.
In December, South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861
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The Confederate States of America is formed; Jefferson Davis is elected president.
In March, President Lincoln is inaugurated.
On April 12, 1861, Southern forces fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, beginning the Civil War.
1789 - 1797
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April, 1841 - 1845
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1845 - 1849
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1849 - July, 1850
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1857 - 1861
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1861 - 1865
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