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"Peculiar Institution"
"(Our) peculiar institution" was a euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the American South -
harpers Ferry
The Civil War was disastrous for Harpers Ferry, which changed hands eight times between 1861 and 1865.[8] When Virginia seceded in April 1861, the U.S. garrison attempted to burn the arsenal and destroy the machinery, to prevent the Confederates from using it. -
Bleeding Kansas
As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners also known as the dark side hatters over the issue of slavery in the United States -
fort sumter
a fort located in charleston, SC. at theh time it was attacked, it was still in the unions control. this event is considered the beginning of the Civil War" -
Robert E.Lee
Virginia declared its secession from the Union -
Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott (1795 – September 17, 1858), was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, -
Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War -
Picketts Charge
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. -
J.E.B. Stuart
During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. -
Reconstruction
n the history of the United States, the term Reconstruction Era has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire U.S. from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War; the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Washington, with the reconstruction of state and society. -
Freedman Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of the early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (freed ex-slaves) in the South. -
Jim Crow Laws
they mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans -
The Fifteenth amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.