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Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to Pennsylvania and freedom -
a bill that allowed Kansas and Nebraska settlers to decide if slavery should be allowed within -
it failed but it inflamed sectional tensions -
was one of the most pivotal presidential elections -
representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America -
captured by confederate forces -
tensions between northern and southern states over slavery -
the first battle of the civil war -
was an American politician -
freed the people held as slaves -
the defeat of Robert E Lees invading confederate army -
a movement from atlanta Georgia to the Georgia seacoast -
General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War -
the day Abraham Lincoln was shot and died as a president -
the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people -
the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote