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William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of the liberator. When it was published, the motto “Our country is the world—our countrymen are mankind" was brought with it. After it was published it was banned in the South.
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It was a total of five separate bills passed in 1850. It defused a confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired from Mexico.
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At first it was in the newspaper, which made people happy, but then she put them all together to make a book. It changed how people viewed slavery.
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It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska decide whether they wanted slavery or not.
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He was elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia, served for a decade in the Senate.
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The U.S. supreme court ruled that a slave who entered a free state was not free.
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It was an attempt by John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the U.S. He wins because of the divided Democratic party.
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The People of the State of South Carolina assembled together and declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States, by the Federal Government, and its interference upon the reserved rights of the States, fully justified this State in then leaving from the Federal Union.
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General Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union forces holding Fort Sumter.
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It was the first major battle of the Civil War. The Union marched from Washington to charge the Confederates.
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It was issued during the third year of the civil war. It made it so that all slaves were free.
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This battle is considered the most important engagement of the Civil War. Robert E Lee led a charge which failed so he forced his troops to fall back.
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Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of the March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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Lee was hurried away so he headed west and ended in Appomattox Country. The Confederates were cut off from supplies again. Eventually they were surrounded and Lee surrendered.
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John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army.
