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a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
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(www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/compromise1850.html)
the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C was taken out -
A book published about slavery this was just one of the books made about him made March 20, 1852
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(https://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm%3Fid%3D193)
this legal case the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the slave Dred Scott who lived in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not "thereby entitled to his freedom" -
(https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860)
Lincoln beat John C. Breckinridge,Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell. Lincoln had won the election!!!!!! -
(https://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm%3Fid%3D193)
The anti-slavery forces was more powerful as Kansas entered into the Union a free state. -
Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.
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It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.Confederates win.
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The bloodiest single day battle in American history, with over 23,000 casualties. The Union victory there led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Emancipation Proclamation declared that January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
This is a picture of the actual Emancipation it's hard to read -
The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South become a part of the Union again.
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Union had won. Union forces had complete control of the Mississippi River and had in effect cut the Confederacy in two.
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This was the largest most bloodiest battle in North America. This was General Robert Lee's second invasion on the North.
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Grant, realizing that Lee's army was running out of options, sent a letter to Lee of the Confederate general's surrender.
This a real life picture taken of Grant Lee -
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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