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- what were the years of the American Civil War?
- What year did the U.S. complete the first Transcontinental Railroad?
- what is the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?
- Kentucky Senator known as the "Great Compromise" because of his work as leader of the Mississippi Compromise and the compromise of 1850.
- Slave who went to court to get his freedom and it made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
- how did the democratic party help the republican lincoln win the election of 1860
- the confederate states of america had the same number of branches of government as the usa. How many?
- Where relationships between the United States/north and European nations tense
- Why did the wealthy aristocracy of France and England sympathize with the south.
- this state was needed to protect washington D.C.
- this victory allowed lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
- union gained control over mississippi river
- this was the start of fighting of the civil war
- Which battle south of Nashville mangled both armies so badly that it takes months for them to re-organize and continue fighting.
- Proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act and popular sovereignty to determine slavery in the territories
- What two conflicting interest did England face in regards to helping the south in the war?
- A dovout abolitionist, he led a massacre of five people in Pottawatomie, Kansas, and he led a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
- slavery could not be banned in the territories according to
- why did abolitionists oppose the annexation of new western lands
- this was the first major battle of the civil war