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Underground railroad and Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman escaped and started helping people on the underground railroad by guiding them and helping them escape -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Act that created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas -
John Brown's raid on harpers ferry
John rode troops to harpers ferry and attempted to start a revolt of enslaved people -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won election and became the U.S. president -
Confederate States Formed
States that break away become the confederates -
Start of civil war
The confederates fired on to fort Sumter and made the union surrender and this is consider what started the Civil war -
Fort Sumter
Confederate states attacked fort Sumter this made the union surrender in two days -
Battle of Bull Run
This battle was really intense and was important because the north thought that they would easily win but then got beaten by the south which gave them false hope -
Jefferson Davis Elected
Jefferson Davis was elected to be in charge of the confederates and was the president of all the people in the south -
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared that slavery in the north was banned and all slaves were now free -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was so important because it was huge moral boost for North and gave them momentum to win the rest of the war -
Sherman's fight to sea
To fight georgia's population to abandon the conferates plan -
13th Amendment
The amendment that made slavery abolished from the U.S. and made it so they couldn't enslave black people -
Appomatox courthouse
Court house were ulysses s. grant forced robert e lee to surrender -
Abraham Lincoln Assination
People killed abe because they were mad about the war and wanted slavery back -
14th Amendment
No states can make any rules to abrige the freedom of any civilian -
15th Amendment
Meant that all slaves would not be able to be denied the right to vote or be denied of anything