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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman helped many slaves to ecape. She led them to safely to Northern free states and to Canada. Even though it was very dangerous to be a runaway slave, Hariiet Tubam still helped the slaves to have a freedom for rest of their life. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
In 1850, congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act. Slave hunters were allowed to capture them and send them back to their owners. People who where helping slaves to escape had to pay 500 dollars of fine. However, this law was opposed in many Northen States. -
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The Confederate States of America
The Reason for Secession
Many Southern States agreed with slavery, but Northern States didn't. Because of these differneces, the South seceded and fromed a new nation. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected, but many people disliked him being a President because he was against slavery. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation. He committed Thirteenth Amendent to abolish the slavery. Abraham Lincoln declare their slaves “then, thenceforward, and forever free.”. -
The Civil War ends
The Northern armies were victorious, and the rebellious states returned to the Union. They had to combine again and the slavery was gone. -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
Six days after the Civil War ended, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, killed Abraham Lincoln. As Booth was Southern sympathizer hated how Lincoln wanted to abolish the slavery. -
Mark Twain writes Huckleberry Finn
Many people were disagreeing about this book because this book is about a white boy helping slaves to escape when the slavery were still going on by few people. People were seperated as halp about liking this or not. -
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The Civil Rights movement
The Civil Right MovementAround 1960s many black people fought for freedom and eqaulity. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman were also invovled. Although many people had died and lost, this fight was sucessful enough. -
Barack Obama elected president
Today, Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
