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☆☆☆☆☆John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, in Washington DC
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The battle was more brutual than people expected
the public was shocked and horrified by the large number of dead and injured. (novanet)
The West
To attempt to resolve the dispute between the North and South regarding slavery, Congress convened on December 3, 1849. The result of this convention was the Compromise of 1850.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to choose, in the future, to become slave states. The South avoided adopting the Wilmot Proviso. A stronger Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress.
citizens who helped a runaway slave could be imprisoned
Harriet Tubamn
Slaves and farmers who asked landowners for land to work would be the least benefit since they would get, usually, indebted to that person.
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
On the two main Confederate armies - the Army of Tennessee under Joe Johnston, and the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee.
This was the initiative of the new General-in-Chief of the Union armies, Ulysses Grant, who was not interested in occupying territory. He just wanted to destroy the enemy.
It required private citizens to help apprehend runaway slaves.
He wanted to avoid war and keep the nation together. He tried to compromise, thinking he could find a peaceful way to prevent war and secession. When he realized that war was inevitable, and it would be violent and bloody, he decided that the post war United States of America should be a free nation with no slaves. That the deaths and killing in the Civil War should be for a purpose, and to end slavery in the USA once and for all.
Brady shot standing pose photos that captured the solemn character of a revered military leader.
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because of antislavery sentiment at home and abroad
