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Proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin shared the untold stories of slavery in the South. It helped persuade people that were on the fence about slavery or if they were neutral, after reading this book a lot of people became abolitionists Or Anti slavery members.
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A convention called by the legislature in South Carolina adopts "An Ordinance to Declare the Right of this State to Secede from the Federal Union".[165]
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The Anaconda Plan was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott.
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Democrats control state governments in all the states which will form the Confederate States of America.
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The American Civil War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter.
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.
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, Battle of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina
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Congress passes the militia act, authorizing Lincoln to use black soldiers blacks are used only as scouts, laborers, spies, kitchen workers, and nurses until after the Emancipation Proclamation. Until 1864, black soldiers are paid only half of what white soldiers are paid.
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Second Battle of Bull Run Manassas, Virginia.
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Johnson moves to Reconstruct the South on his own initiative He prefers to call the process "restoration", emphasizing his leniency towards the rebelling Southern states. Former Confederate military leaders and patricians with taxable property over $20,000 are disenfranchised until further notice; only 10% of enfranchised Southern population needs to take an oath of loyalty before readmission.
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The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee it is one of the many secret societies set up to terrorize blacks. Its methods become ever more vicious as whites become more certain that their old way of life is being threatened.
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Congress proposes the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery and involuntary servitude everywhere in the United States.
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Freedmenís Bureau is founded to aid former slaves
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia
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Lincoln is assassinated at Fordís Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
