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she helped many slaves escape slavery by taking them on a path through houses of anti slavery people that would house them for a couple nights -
the Kansas Nebraska act was the states got freedom to not be slave states so the states got to choose if slavery is legal or illegal. it was a huge debate so they decided to let the states do what they wanted. -
he and his men attacked because it was he thought that violence would get rid of slavery and thought the blacks would follow him because he was violent. -
Abraham Lincoln won against Steven A. Douglas and Lincoln promised that he wouldn't ban slavery in the south and he said he would do anything to keep the union together -
seven of the southern states seceded and had ended slavery in their states freeing many slaves in the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana -
it happened in south Carolina after south Carolina seceded fort Sumter tried not to provoke anything after a while they surrendered -
4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War. -
was the very first battle between the union and confederacy people from Washington came and watched the confederacy won the battle -
elected by the southern states to be the confederate president the people thought he was apart of the assassination plot but he wasn't -
the union won the battle at Antietam and the union held off a confederate invasion more Americans died in one day than any other single day in history Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves in their territories not in the south but the slaves in the south thought it applied to them as well -
the confederates tried to invade the north attacking Washington dc form the north hoping for the union surrender it was the only battle where the south attacked from the north nd the north attacked from the south the union army intercepted the confederate army near the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania the confederates had partial victories but where ultimately defeated it was the battle that swung the civil war in favor of the north -
general Sherman took his armies and cut the confederacy in half ultimately capturing Atlanta Georgia and he destroyed everything and destroyed the souths ability to wage war -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
he had Robert e lee surrounded grant was the general of the union army and lee surrendered to him at the courthouse ending the civil war -
Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilks Booth while he was at the play at Petersen house Washington D.C.
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