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Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad.
She helped other slaves escape and it was a very hard and dangerous thing to do. It was dangerous because if she got caught then the white police would kill them and Harriet Tubman. -
Fugitive Slave Act.
Fugitive Slave Act is many different groups of laws. With this slave act California was the first state to be a free state. If a salve escaped the law required for if people had found them, then they would have to return them to their owner. -
Confederate States Of America.
The United States separated in half between the North and the South. The reason for there splitting was because the South wanted to have slaves, but the north was against to and did not want slaves. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected..
Half of the country did not want him to be the president because he was completely against slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation was what made slavery illegal. NO MORE SLAVES!!! -
Union Wins The War.
After the Confederate army surrenders is when that Civil War ends. -
Abraham Lincoln Is Assassinated..
Many people did not agree with Lincoln's ways and views of abolishing slavery. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain writes this book "Huckleberry Finn" the tales of a white boy helping a slave escape. The whole country was divvied about this book coming out. -
Civil Rights Movement
The civil right movement takes place in the US where millions of people fought for equal rights. Some of the well known people would be Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks because they were fighting for blacks equal rights. -
Barack Obama President
Barack Obama has become the first black president of the United States. It's amazing how much things has changed from blacks fighting for human equal rights and now we are electing him as president.
