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A day in the life of a Civil War soldier started at around 6 am. It mostly consisted of drills and marching. Of course, around lunch, they had a break. They dealt with boredom by reading and writing. Most of the soldiers were literate, in fact: 9/10 federals could do it, and so could 4/5 confederates. They sent letters to their families in order to keep them updated.

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The Springfield Rifle was a popular gun used for the Civil War. The gun was the biggest one on the market at the time, and very few were produced. The rifle used the .58 caliber bullet, which caused people to shoot over soldiers heads since they didn't adjust their sights.

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John Wilkes Booth was most known for his assassination of president Abraham Lincoln, but not many people know about his real life. John was an actor, a successful one, might I add. John was born on May 10th, 1838. Him and his family lived in Harford County, Maryland. His father technically had two wives, due to neglecting to divorce his first marriage. As the years went by, Booth became a actor. He even preformed for Lincoln once. Booth was fed up with Lincoln's passion to end slavery, so he decided to kill him.

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On April 15th, 1865, president Abraham Lincoln was at a play at the Peterson House in Washington D.C. Without knowing, a man named John Wilkes Booth was going to shoot him in the back of the head. William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, was also murdered the same day. Unfortunately, both didn't survive, and left a day of tragedy for the United States of America.

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Of course there's the women who worked at home. They cooked, cleaned, and cared for children. But there were women that wanted to serve their country. Women, along many things, weren't allowed to enlist in the military. In order to serve their country, they dressed up as men. They cut their hair, dressed like them. They did everything they could to get into the military. About 400 women fought in the Civil War all while hiding the fact that they were female. For example: Loretta J. Velazquez, after her husband enlisted in the military, Loretta still wanted to be with him. She cut her hair and went by the name of Henry T. Buford.

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On January 1st, 1863, Lincoln wrote the "E.P." also known as the "Emancipation Proclamation". The E.P. was a document that said that all the slaves were freed. The document was only meant for the states fighting against the Confederate, so in the process, no slaves were actually freed. After the E.P. was published, the whole war was changed. Instead of keeping the United States of America together, the new cause of the war was just to free the slaves.

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Antietam was the bloodiest day of the war with 22,717 people left dead. It occurred on September 17th, 1862 near a town in Maryland. It is most recognized for the most military deaths in one day. The battle ended in a tie, but it was considered a victory for the North.

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The Civil War originally was set to keep the country together. After the South decided to split from the country, they became the Confederate States of America. The North disagreed with the South and said that seceding from the country isn't allowed since the USA was bound together. It started a war between the two countries called ¨The Civil War". The war began to set the countries back together, but soon enough, the war was a completely different cause. Lincoln decided that the war wasn't particularly for the country spitting, but it was for slavery. In the end, after countless battles, the North won, and slavery was abolished. The Civil War lasted from 1861 - 1865.

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The Confederate States of America consisted of the South portion of the USA. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia were part of the confederate states from 1861 - 1865. The South was all for slavery, opposed to the North, who absolutely despised it. The first president of the South was named Jefferson F. Davis, he was also the last. The South even went as far as making their own currency, and not accepting the North's money. The South had eventually lost The Civil War, leading them to fail as a country and rejoin forces with the North.

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The underground railroad was a system in the South where white and free black men and women helped slaves escape their captors. People had such creative ways to help them, such as hiding slaves in hay and hiding them in their house. They might even buy them to just let them go. This resulted in saving at least 30,000 slaves.

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What I think caused The Civil War the most - drawing

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What I think caused The Civil War the most - drawing

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"Abolitionist" is a term to use for someone who had a strong passion to abolish slavery. Abolitionism started all the way back in the 1600's, where people discussed their distaste in slavery. Some famous abolitionists consist of
- Susan B. Anthony
- John Brown
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- Fredrick Douglass

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If I were alive at this time, I would've gotten involved in a reform movement. But I would only would have gotten involved with a few. If it's something like women's rights, where there was a convention and not a war, I would participate. But if it has to do with a war and a risk on my life, I'd rather not. Yes, I would support the movement, but wars aren't really the type of thing for me.

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John Brown was someone who fell into the "Radical Abolitionist" category. He was born in the year 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. Not much is known about his young life, but we do know that he fathered 20 children and got married twice. Around the age of 55, he traveled around New England to spread Anti-Slavery awareness and raising money for a war.

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The first Women's Rights convention was held in July 1848. It was called the Seneca Falls Convention because it was located in Seneca Falls, New York. They fixated on women's suffrage, which meant trying to get women the right to vote. It was held on July 19 - 20. On the 19th, only women were able to show up, and there was roughly 300 people there. On the 20th, they allowed men to come to the convention. In the beginning of the convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton had said a remarkable speech to start the whole convention off right. “We are assembled to protest against a form of government, existing without the consent of the governed—to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages which she earns, the property which she inherits, and, in case of separation, the children of her love.”

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Back when the telegraph was invented, Samuel F.B. Morse created a language to go along with it. Samuel called it "Morse Code" which was essentially a bunch of lines, dots, and slashes to make up letters and spaces. It would be sent through telegraph wires, and would have to be transcribed very quickly to be sent. It allowed people from across the country to speak to each other, which was a big deal!

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The Sager family consisted of Henry and Naomi Sager, and their kids John, Francis, Katherine, Elizabeth, Matilda, and Louise. Naomi was expecting a baby when they left for the West. They had a 2000 mile journey ahead of them, and Henry was determined to make it. Naomi gave birth while riding to the West. She became ill and weak and it made the whole trip harder. To make things worse, Katherine broke her leg from getting it ran over by the wagon. Later in the ride, Henry died from a fever. The death had a big impact on Naomi. Before Naomi died, she told John and Frances to keep their siblings safe. The kids were now orphans and were watched over by William and Sally Shaw. The family got held captive by Native Americans and the majority of them died.

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When Americans started taking over the west, a lot of women came with families or just by themselves. They went because they were able to own land and work. They were more free. For example, Frances Keys. She moved with her husband and children. She helped her husband in the mines and taught her children before schools were built.

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Joseph Smith started Mormonism when he was 14 in New York state. He said that an angel named Moroni gave him the Book of Mormon to spread it and make word of her father, Mormon. He published the book in 1830. Mormons believe and support the idea of Christianity and have made adjustments according to the book of Mormon.