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Issue that is an anti-slavery newspaper. Published in 1831. Written by William Loyd Garrison. For the entire era of people that lived in the years that led up to the Civil War William Lloyd Garrison was the voice of Abolitionism.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished. It was also a series of resolutions that tried to solve the problems between the North and the South.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. in 1852 the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
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It allowed people in there territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if they do or do not want to allow slavery within their borders.
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Dred Scott was a slave that ran away.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by White abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia.
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Lincoln won the presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party
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South Carolina responded to Lincoln's election first, seceding from the Union
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Confederate got the victory Beginning of the American Civil War
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as Battle of First Mananas. In Virginia, near the city of Mananas, not far from Washington D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9 1865 was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army.
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Actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., and shot President Abraham Lincoln and he died.
