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The liberator was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of Bills that was passed by the U.S Congress.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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The surrender at Appomatox Court house was one of the last battles of the civil war.
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He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives then served as a Minister.
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Dred Scott was an enslaved African American in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom.
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, he was the first to win presidency as a republican
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union.
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Battle at Fort Sumter was one of a number of many special forts planned after the War of 1812.
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The First Battle of Bull Run, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation, and was issued by president Abraham Lincoln.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name given to the military Savannah Campaign in the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
