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Established to aid enslaved people in their escape to freedom
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Harriet Breecheer Stowe's anti-slavery novel.Within three months of publishing, 300,000 copies were sold.
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John Brown invaded Virginia to raid Harpers Ferry arsenal and incite a slave rebellion. There were also several men that carried out vigilante violence in Kansas to abolish slavery.
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Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumpter. The next day at 2:30 in the afterenoon, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and evacuated the next day.
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The Virginian armies' first major land battle.
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This was the eighth-costliest land battle of the Civil War with 22,717 casualties.
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Issued by Lincoln during year 3 of the Civil War, it declared "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free"
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"For many a hard fought month, Ulysses S. Grant and his army of the Tennessee had been trying to wrest away the strategic Confederate river fortress of Vicksburg, Mississippi."
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following the civil war was the reconstruction era.
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This event occurred right next to Appomattox Court House, Virginia.Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, the battle there lasted a few hours and brought an end to the 4 year Civil War.
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Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre and died the next day.