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Slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County in Virginia. Rebel slaves killed 55 to 65 people, atleast 51 being white.
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It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history.
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The American Anti-Slavery Society was a society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Freed slaves like Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown spoke at meetings
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Sarah Grimké responded to Catharine Beecher's defense of the subordinate role of women.
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Called for an open rebellion of the slaves
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A convention to discuss the social, civil. and religious condition and rights of women
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. In 1849, following a bout of illness and the death of her owner, Harriet Tubman decided to escape slavery in Maryland for Philadelphia.
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As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
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Helped provide the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
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"Aint I a Woman" speech became one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American history.
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the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
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A series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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It declared their new party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories and selected a statewide slate of candidates.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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The document permitted slavery. Excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, and allowed only male citizens of the United States to vote.
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U.S legislation that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted into the Union following the civil war.
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Caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were significant because of the issues discussed between the candidates during the debates.
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Was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Because the Democratic vote was spread so thin, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell in the 1860 presidential election. The Democrats' split had defeated their own party.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.
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In February 1861, representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. On February 9, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected the Confederacy's first president.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War
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Antietam Creek was the bloodiest single day in American military history.
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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. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
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President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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President Abraham Lincoln signs a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army
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On September 1, 1864, Sherman and his army captured Atlanta, Georgia, an important transportation center in the Confederacy.
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The 1864 election was the first time since 1812 that a presidential election took place during a war. For much of 1864, Lincoln himself believed he had little chance of being re-elected
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Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Brought an end to the civil war.
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Was the first American president to be impeached.
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Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan. A White supremacist group who wanted the white dominant culture to remain dominant.
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White Democratic Southerners saw themselves as redeeming the South by regaining power. They appealed to scalawags
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In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
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Carpetbaggers are Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War. Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedom and the new Northerners in the South.
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The most important arm of this bureaucracy was the Freedmen's Bureau. The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands on March 3, 1865, to aid and protect former slaves after the end of the war.
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the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government.
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A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson. The law's chief thrust was to offer protection to slaves freed in the aftermath of the Civil War
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The House of representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of impeaching the President for high crimes and misdemeanors
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The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
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As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States
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15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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The leading Radicals in Congress were Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner in the Senate. Grant was elected as a Republican in 1868 and after the election he generally sided with the Radicals on Reconstruction policies and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law.
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The Slaughter-House Cases was the first United States Supreme Court interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment which had recently been enacted.
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One of the earliest case to deal with the application of the Bill of Rights to state governments, following the adoption of the 14th amendment. Arose from the 1873 Colfax Massacre, in which a group of armed whites killed more than a hundred African Americans.
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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
