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-Sultana disater
-survivors of the sultana were documented and told there storys
- all the passengers had to eat was crackers, raw salt, pork and bacon and could only drink the river water

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explosion of the sultana by berry, chester

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explosion of the sultana by berry, chester

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-Sultana disaster
-the sultana was not only overcrowded with people but also had 6 times the amount of sugar that it could hold
-an 1 hour and a half  after the explosion the botonia 2 arrived and rescued around 760 but around 300 ended up dying
- the sultana had more people die than the titanic but the sultana was considered much less important knowone talked about the sultana but everyone talked about the titanic

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sirs discoverer
there was no passenger list so people still might be on the bottom of the Mississippi river or some of the ships cargo
-historians say about 1,585 people died, 68 more than the titanic
-ship caught fire and sank just north of Memphis, Tennessee

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explosion of the sultana by berry, chester

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explosion of the sultana by berry, chester

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-Sultana disaster
-the Sultana was paid $5 for every regular passenger on board and $10 for every officer
-not only was the sultana overcrowded with 2300 passengers but it also had 100 hogs, 60 mules, and 100 hogsheads of sugar
-the sultana ship had 4 boilers but during the explosion only 3 exploded because the 4th boiler had leaked all the way and was empty

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american history online

-passage of the act was on May 30, 1854
-suppressed the Missouri compromise and undid much of the compromise of 1850
-had a major effect on the reconfiguration of America's political parties
-Divide democratic, played a role in the deise of the whig party, and helped with the rise of the republic party

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-Sultana disaster
-Most people jumped off of the ship in to the water but most prisoners were weak from camp that very little made it to shore
-Captain Fredrick speed was charged guilty with a five month charge in prison for departing  with the overcrowded ship
-The army soon after closed the investigation of the ship

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sirs discoverer
-when the war ended, Lincoln was killed, and the sultana disaster happen very close to each other
-some passenger jumped over the bow of the boat to get away from the fire and then died a the water
-some people who were witnesses and said they could hear the screams of people that were trapped a the cabin under timber

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-Sultana disaster
-The ships capacity was 376 but it was severely overcrowded on departure with over 2300 passengers
-The early morning of april 27th one of the sultanas boilers exploded witch  led to 2 other explosions
-many people died from boiling water or the fire

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-supporters of slavery won the vote in 1857
-ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
-tension increased again in 1859 when john brown led an abolitionist group to seize a arsenal ferry in Virginia

-federal troops quickly seized Brown

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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-Sultana disaster
- The sultana left new Orleans carrying civilians, livestock, and various goods
-At Vicksburg, Mississippi  the ship engineer had discovered the boiler was leaking
-Over 2000 prisoners boarded the ship that left April 24

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sirs discoverer
-The river was full of bodies from the boat
-the soldiers were to weak from Andersonville prison and other prisons so they couldn't swim
-the first rescue boat reported that the diseased, malnourished and exhausted soldiers they had very little chance of surviving

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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-Sultana disaster
-Over 1700 people died in the disaster, most of the dead men were union soldiers in the american civil
-The sultana was completed and launched in 1863

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sirs discoverer
-the ship lit up in fire and the ship was carrying coal, and fuel so it became a inferno
-the soldiers on board the ship had bad food, no doctors
-the passengers on the ship were all huddled on the top deck with little protection

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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The sinking of the Sultana, David Madden

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-Sultana disaster
-The sultana was the worst maritime disaster in united states history
-The disaster took place on the Mississippi river on April, 27, 1865
-The sultana was a paddle steamer its metal boilers over heated and caused it to explode

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american history online

-after act was set in place both pro-slavery and free-soil proponents flooded to Kansas in anticipation to vote on the territories status
-influx of a divide population led to the conflict known as bloody kansas
-destroyed the last remnants of the  Whig Party+ helped boost popularity of the newly forming republican party

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sirs discoverer
-people on board were not people on vacation like the titanic they were prisoners
-the sultana disaster is also known as Bloody Mississippi
-no one knows how many people died in the disaster

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Civil War Behind The Fighting by Tim Cooke

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Civil War Behind The Fighting by Tim Cooke

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-sultana disaster
-The sultana passed as very unnoticed unlike the titanic in 1912 were every living soul knew about the titanic and many more were killed the titanic
-The titanic even gave some passengers that lived ptsd
-knowone knows for sure but they think the sultana exploded from a prisoner who wanted revenge on the others

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-may have been the most important single event pushing the nation toward civil war
-seemed almost sacred to many Americans
-northerners called the act an atrocious crime
-that didn't stop the act from being past

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The Civil War Volume 9 by Sheridan, Philip H. trade

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The Civil War Volume 9 by Sheridan, Philip H. trade

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-Sultana disaster
-1865 april 27-28 the Sultana exploded also that year Abraham Lincoln was murdered his killer John Wilkes Booth died in a crowd of gunfire and the confederate president Jefferson Davis went on run while his armies ignored to fight
-The license given to the Sultana was to only have 300 passengers
- The explosion on April 28 happened at 2:00 A.M.
-27-38 passengers were trapped on board and were burned to death others drown in the mississippi

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world book online
-The ships boilers exploded
- the boilers were sinking in the mississippi
-it was the worst United states maritime disaster in history

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world book online
-when the ship left Vicksburg it had 2,300 people on board
-100 civilian passenger and 85 crew members
-The ship was only designed for 376
-The ship had 2000 freed prisoners on board from prisons like Andersonville

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A History of US Liberty For All by Joy Hakim

-Stephen Douglas introduced new bill that divided territory into two regions
-Ban on slavery was ended
-instead the residents of the territories were to decide for themselves about slavery
-Doulas wasn't a supporter of slavery, and did not like slavery
-He was not a slave and did not worry about those who were

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Grolier Online

- Stephen Douglas chairman of the Senate committee on territories, became spokesman and chief architect of several bills  these two areas was essential to the construction of transcontinental railroad to the Pacific.
-introduced a bill in January 1854 to organize Kansas and Nebraska as territories and to adhere to principle of "popular sovereignty" determining whether new territories would be slave or free
-Since future status of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska based on the majority vote of inhabitants, both proslavery and antislavery groups worked to promote settlement of  citizens in  new territories.
-the two sides led to several years of violence and conflict

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world book online
-The sultana  was traveling near Memphis, Tennessee, when its boilers blew up
-the ship was carrying civilian passengers, livestock, and various goods
-more than 2,000 freed prisoners boarded the ship at Vicksburg

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Other things during that time                                Encyclopedia of the civil war, by Catherine Clinton

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Other things during that time                                Encyclopedia of the civil war, by Catherine Clinton

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-The war ended
-they picked prisoners from Andersonville prisons
-Lincoln was killed

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American History Online

-Kansas was not accepted into the Union until 1861, and the border wars continued to the eve of the American Civil War, fought over the same issues.
-In Kansas, 55 killed between 1855 and 1858; at the Sack of Lawrence, 183 killed

-The act spawned the Republican Party and led U.S. senator David R. Atchison of Missouri, who had already broken with his hoary and respected former fellow senator Thomas Hart Benton over slavery, to swear that he would let the territory "sink in hell" before allowing it to be organized as a Free-Soil state.

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-provided the people of the two territories could decide to permit slavery
-most Nebraskans opposed slavery
-conflict between slavery opposer and supporters of slavery in Kansas
-opposer John Brown led a raid against the supporters

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American History Online

-The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850 made federal and local officials who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000
-According to the bill, law-enforcement officials everywhere in the U.S., including the North, now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave
-The bill also called for six months in prison for any person who aided a runaway; anyone who captured a fugitive slave was given payment.

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Encyclopedia of the civil war, by Catherine Clinton

-John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln's head at fords theater
- The government refused to give booths body to the booth family
-The man hunt was the biggest in U.S history

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Civil War And Reconstruction by David C. King

-1854 Kansas-Nebraska act passed
-voters of new territories or states could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
-result was five years of sporadic violence by both pro-slavers and free soilers that led to more than 200 deaths
-slave catchers could now force northern authorities to arrest people claimed to be runaway slaves