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        Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to Pennsylvania and freedom - 
  
  
        a bill that allowed Kansas and Nebraska settlers to decide if slavery should be allowed within - 
  
  
        it failed but it inflamed sectional tensions - 
  
  
        was one of the most pivotal presidential elections - 
  
  
        representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America - 
  
  
        captured by confederate forces - 
  
  
        tensions between northern and southern states over slavery - 
  
  
        the first battle of the civil war - 
  
  
        was an American politician - 
  
  
        freed the people held as slaves - 
  
  
        the defeat of Robert E Lees invading confederate army - 
  
  
        a movement from atlanta Georgia to the Georgia seacoast - 
  
  
        General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War - 
  
  
        the day Abraham Lincoln was shot and died as a president - 
  
  
        the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States - 
  
  
        the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people - 
  
  
        the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote