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Was a network of "safe places" for runaway slaves to stop at on their way up north.
Harriet Tubman was a main conductor for the railroad.
anti-slavery forces . -
Proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. Provided that California be admitted as a free state.
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Anyone convicted of helping a runaway slave was arrested .
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The U.S. supreme court voted against Dred Scott stating that being on free territory didn't make a slave free. permits extension of slavery.
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Wasn't on most ballots in the south
opposed slavery
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Convinced the north wouldn't respect their need and slavery would end. South Carolina would be the first of 11 states to leave the union.
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Was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott, to surround the south cutting off their resources land and sea,pushing them inward, squeezing them till they surrender.
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Confederate soldiers fire the first shots at Union troops at Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.
Lincoln has no choice but to declare war on the south. -
The confederates will the first major battle of the Civil War
This shocked the North -
-bloodiest battle of the Civil War
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Changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the South, from slave to freemen
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The abolitionist Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts issued the Civil War’s first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered.
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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-Pardoned most confederates who swore allegiance to the union
-House of representatives brings impeachment charges
-found Innocent by one vote -
gave the right to vote to African Americans
- The KKK was formed to keep Africans from going to the polls
there were impossible to pass literary test and taxes to pay to vote
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