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The Liberator is a newspaper which deals with slavery. Created by William Lloyd Garrison who was against slavery.
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Proposed by Henry Clay of Kentucky who also proposed the Missouri Compromise. Read that California would be a free state Washington D.C would have illegal slavery and that anyone who helped a slave would be imprisoned.
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and stated that slavery was a brutal and cruel system.
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Proposed by Stephen Douglas, a senator from Illinois, and stated that popular sovereignty would decide if Nebraska and Kansas would have slavery. This act also repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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The electoral vote gave Buchanan the victory in the Presidential election in 1856.
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Sued for freedom because his owner and himself lived in free territories so he thought he should be a free man.
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John Brown led a revolt to arm slaves to their freedom, he was eventually caught and hung.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 1st Republican President of the United States.
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South Carolina leave the Union because they feel Abraham Lincoln will free the slaves and had threatened before if he became President they would leave.
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The confederates wanted Fort Sumter because they felt that U.S. arsenals should not be on their land. This was the 1st battle of the civil war.
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It was the 1st major battle of the Civil War. The South won and pushed the North back to D.C.
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Stated that all slaves would be free.
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Each side ran into each other and started fighting. The North won but it was not a clear who won.
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Evacuated the city of Atlanta, and the North had so many soldiers that the South's 10,000 fled.
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The final battle of the Civil War where the South finally surrendered after 4 years of battling the North.
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He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday at a play he was attending.
