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Harriet Tubman was an African American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the south and created the secert network "The Underground Railroad" to help the other slaves to escape to other states that is free from slavery.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was a pair of federal laws that allowed to capture the escaped slaves and return them back to slavery in the south.
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Abraham Lincoln electionAbraham Lincoln got elected President for The United States of America in November 6, 1860. He was the first republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote.
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The border states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri remained with a union together and decided to create their own country and they established a separate government.
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Emancipation ProclamationOn this day, Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation. Which means that he set a date to free more than 3 millions black slaves in the United States.
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In this day General Robert E. Lee,,commander of Confederate forces in the west, signed the surrender terms, offered by the union. With this surrender it was the end of the Four years of Civil War.
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In this day Abraham Lincoln was at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. When John Wilkes sneaked behind the President and shot him. It was only five days after the confederate surrendered.
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Mark Twain wrote this noval in 1885. This book was famous for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. It explains how a white boy helped a black man slave to escape.
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Civil Rights movementThe Civil Rights movement was divided into several phases, each began with isolated and small protests. Then the movement spreaded all over US with a big numbers of people .
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President Barak Obama Barak Obama was the senator of illinois. In January 20, 2009, he got elected as a president of The United Staes of America. Also Barak Obama is black, that shows how the history of United States changed in the last century.