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Slavery was the whole point of the why civil war started. America was always a slave state but not every thought slavery was needed. The North didn't use slaves because they didn't need them, they had immigrants who were looking for jobs. But the South heavily relied on slavery since the beginning. But the North didn't like how the South was treating their slaves. The South was beating them raping them, and making them work in harsh conditions.
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With new states joining America, it would break the even number of free and enslaved states. Both sides would argue for the state to be free or enslaved. -
This book exposes what slave owners did to their slaves and all the harsh conditions the slaves were in. This book was banned in the South because the southern thought it
was making false accusations against them. -
The Southerners basically saying that they don't have to follow their rules and decided to become their own country. They called their country the Confederate States of America. -
Abraham Lincoln's election for president was one of the last reasons the civil war started because the Southerners knew Lincoln will abolish slavery. -
A Confederate state can rejoin as soon as it writes a new state constitution, elect a new state government repeal its act of secession, canceled its war debts, and ratified the thirteen amendment which was to abolish slavery. -
Freedmen and whites from the South were provided with food and medical care. Schools were built for freedmen who wanted an education. -
A Congressman named Thaddeas Steven Told Congress about an idea. He told Congress to break up plantations to give every freedman forty acres and a mule a payment for all the years of unpaid labor. But this idea was not supported because it would be unconstitutional since it broke people's property rights. -
All slaves that were free are called freedmen. Some decisions slaves decided to do was change their name for their new life. Some reunited with their scattered families. -
Lincoln was watching a play with his wife at Ford's Theatre but was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth.