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While the Civil War weapons were very accurate (for the time)the bullets could only travel 200-500 yards, and you could only shoot 3 bullets per minute. Some of these famous weapons do include: The Springfield Model 1861 (Musket) and the Smith and Wesson Model 1 (revolver)

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The Freedman's Bureau gave education and economically help to feed slaves from the civil war and to poor whites. It also helped these "freedmen" to find jobs. They also resolved disputes between whites and blacks.

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed the governments of all the southern states that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment and replaced them with military rule until they ratified the 14th Amendment and let African Americans vote. Women's rights, Education and Infrastructure were all expanded by this.

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Women were really important in the Civil war, because women increasingly took over jobs in factories and in farming, because the men had left for war. Some (400) women had even dressed up as men and had fought with them. This war gave a huge opportunity for women to become nurses, teachers, and other jobs usually dominated by male workers.

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The Ku Klux Klan (formley known as the KKK), was a group formed after slavery was abolished. the group was a hate group. their main goal was to stop blacks from voting. they also attacked any successful black men. In general, their goal was to undermine blacks.

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Because Slavery had been abolished, The South had suffered economically because they had used slaves to produce cotton. The South recovered economically by the 1880's.  Cotton production soared, and the South became more industrialized.

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Even though slavery was abolished on January 31, 1865, the south had still segregated blacks. For example, In the south, They had different water fountains. Ones for "Whites", and one for "Colored" people. Another example is that blacks had to ride at the back of the bus and had to get up for a white man if there wasn't enough space.

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Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. He was assassinated in at Ford's theater, while he was watching the play "Our American Cousin". The person who killed Lincoln was named John Wilkes Booth. He was the first president in the United States to be assassinated.

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Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina. It was one of a number of forts built after the war 1812

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This Compromise was brought up by Henry Clay. This Compromise had brought up many acts and changes to the U.S. For example, there used to be 4 slaves to 1 free black. At 1860, it was 1 slave to 4 free blacks.

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Henry Clay proposed the compromise of 1850

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At 1859, John Brown tried to free slaves by stealing guns and arming the slaves. He had failed and got captured and hanged.

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in the 1840's a whole new mean of communication called "Morse code" was invented. It is a type of language that is spoken by beeps, taps or anything that can make a sound. You can even use light to speak this language.

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Dorothea Dix had changed the way that prisons worked in the 1800's. An example of how she changed the prison system, was that debtors didn't go to prison anymore, and she had separated the prisoners from the mentally ill.

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Many Americans followed the way of god, or "free will" and basically the mentality was that if you do bad things (steal, gamble etc.) then you would go to hell. But if you did good things (Go to church, listen to your parents, etc.) then you would go to heaven.

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Moby Dick was written at 1851 during the reform.

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At the early 1830's, the Underground Railroad was built by Harriet Tubman to free slaves that lived in the south.

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In the 1800's, boys as young as 7 worked in factories. why this was a problem was because these boys had bad working conditions, and they would get sick easily.

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In the 1800's the states in the South were "slave states," while the North states were "free states". What this means is that the South had slaves, but if a slave traveled into the north, he would be "free"

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Women were finally allowed to vote on August 18, 1920

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A stereotype for men that feminists fought was they drank a lot of alcohol, and that they would go back to their homes and abuse their wives.

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The Irish immigrated because of a disease that the potato's had gotten, and helped built the railroads in the US.

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These revivals persuaded people to believe and follow god.

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Back then, teachers were allowed to punish her/his students by smacking the student on the wrists, and on the butt. But one odd punishment that the student got, was they put a "dunce" cap on the student, and made him sit in the corner. Dunce means stupid, and incapable to learn.