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Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped, and later became a conductor for the underground railroad helping other slaves escape.
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Was a territorial act that gained Kansas and Nebraska and allowed popular sovereignty. -
John Brown wanted to initiate a slave revolt against an armory in Harpers Ferry. -
It was the election for the 19th quadrennial president, or the election for Abraham Lincoln.
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A bunch of states joined together to form the confederate states. -
The Confed attacked the U.S at Fort Sumter. No body body died, but it marks the start of the Civil War.
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The start of the Civil War.
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Confederates won, and forced the Union to retreat.
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Jefferson Davis was elected president for the confederates.
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They declared everyone that was a slave as free.
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Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion against the North.
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The troops of the General wanted to destroy the confederates supplies.
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Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox courthouse.
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People from the South believed the Confederacy could be restored, so JWB assassinated president Lincoln.
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Slavery is abolished
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African Americans were granted equal rights and citizenship.
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Gave African American men the right to vote.
