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The first issue of the liberator really let people who had no idea what slavery was like get a good image in there head and it hopefully made them aware and angry about slavery.
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The 1850 compromise tried to make piece between the North and South.
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It Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska decide to have slavery or not in there state.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe an African American.
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The Democratic party nominated Buchanan of Pennsylvania. He was a diplomat and former member of congress.
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In 1846 antislavery lawyers helped Scott sue for his freedom. This also helped the court rule on the question of slavery itself. Dred Scott still had no rights to bring a lawsuit living on free soil did not make him free.
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John Browns raid did not succeed but it rallied up northerners and scared southerners.
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If and when Abraham Lincoln gets in office South Carolina made it pretty clear they were going to depart from the Union.
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When Abe was elected many southern states receded except some who agreed with him but still wanted slavery called border states.
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Fort Sumter was on Confederate soil so when the states seceded from the Union they wanted them out of there so they sent troops to attack it. Surprisingly no one died but before supplies got to the fort they had to retreat.
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Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battle that the South won.
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On the third year of the bloody civil war the emancipation proclamation declared all slaves be free.
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The battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the civil war won by the Union.
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Sherman's march to the sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah campaign.
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It was one of the last battles of the civil war. It was also when General Grant surrendered to General Lee.
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Lincolns assassination happened one evening in a theater when John Wilkes Booth got in somehow and shot him in the back of the head.
