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The underground railroad is a network of roads that lead the slaves in the civil war to safety.

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Education in the U.S. used to be very bad until the government and the citizens made it better and the education system was saved

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Prisons in the old U.S. were like real life versions of 🤬. They were way to cold or overheated and the prisoners were treated like dirt

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Women around the country started the women rights movement at the same time slavery was abolished and stopped 54 ears before women could vote

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Slavery was abolished in 1866 and while it was still legal people made newspapers and articles to help abolish it.

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There was a time in the us when alcohol was illegal gel and crime rates quadrupled. Many women thought that alcohol was bad and took part in making it illegal for a time.

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The second great awakening is when Americans were aware about heaven and 🤬 and they "woke up" to please god and hope that they went to heaven. They changed the schooling system and the prisons were nicer and it was a big step for the us.

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Before the second great awakening people with disabilities were sent to prison but that changed when we made asylums and we brought mental and physically handicapped people here.

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Abolition was when we finally made slavery illegal. It took around 4 years and the civil war but I think it was worth it.

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the Erie canal is a canal the connects the ocean with new York and made trade 16 times cheaper.

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In the south the economy was largely based on the slave and cotton industry. The people in the deep south were treated worse then the northern south. This is where the term down river came from.

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The summers where hot and long and humid. A lot of cotton and tobacco were grown here because they made a lot of money and were called cash crops. Since there was a lot of heat a lot of crops could be grown so there were a of of slaves,

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The south had a lot of rivers so things were transported by water. Ships were big and could carry a lot so this helped spread slavery like a wildfire.

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Slaves would break tools,fences, and worked slowly. They pretended to be dumb lazy blind or crazy to sabotage work.

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In 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina A free slave with 30 slaves was going to lead a rebellion but was caught and hanged. Nat turner killed 57 people in two days 9 years later.

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When Mexico gave us land we wanted to know if it would be free or slave territory and we made a set of rules over it. It would be a majority vote.

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The Missouri compromise was a compromise to let Missouri be a state if Maine could be one to.

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This law made it legal to take slaves who ran away and made it to the north to be able to be taken away even if they were free.

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The confederate forces of america were mostly farmers and had better training with guns then the factory workers of the north. The north almost outnumbered the south 3 to 1 and had superior outfits but were on the offensive side so they used more resources.

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President Lincoln made a law in the middle of the war which freed the slaves and this changed the meaning of the war by making the southern states to still be part of the us instead of fighting for freedom.

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Most weapons in the civil war were rifles and muskets, (rifles being the superior weapon). Cannons and mortars were also used but were mainly used to destroy buildings and defenses.

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The union army had more soldiers, almost 3 to 1 but had worse training. The uniforms of the north were better and the north had more resources, better guns, and more cannons and mortars.

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About 400 women disguised themselves as men and fight for both sides in the civil war. Women weren't allowed to fight and had to disguise themselves so they wouldn't get in trouble.

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There were 400 battles in the civil war. Some of the more famous ones where Gettysburg, Fredricksburg, and Vicksburg