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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. African Americans played a greater role in politics under Radical Reconstruction. Education, Infrastructure,  and Women’s Rights all expanded under Radical Reconstruction.

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Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death the plot failed: Seward was only wounded and Johnson's would-be attacker lost his nerve.

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"In 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was published as a novel. Plays based on the book toured the country, thrilling audiences with Eliza's dramatic escape to freedom. No other work had ever aroused such powerful emotions about slavery. In the South, the novel and its author were scorned and cursed. However, in the North, Uncle Tom's Cabin made millions of people even angrier about the cruelties of slavery."

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Scott, a slave, argued that since he and his wife had once lived in free states, they should be free.
The supreme Court declared that slaves were not citizens and could NOT sue in court (NOT citizens). The Supreme Court also ruled that slaves were property and Congress could not deprive a man of his property without due process. Infuriated Northerners * Most Supreme Court Judges were Southerners.

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The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act induced violence between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers. These violent acts became to be known as the events in Bleeding Kansas.

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Northerners were concerned that if Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, other territories would also be admitted as slave states.

Southerners worried that if Congress banned slavery in Missouri, it would try to end slavery elsewhere.

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After the Mexican American War the Abolitionists dug deep to create a new Political Party called the Free –Soil Party.  They proposed something to Congress that created a ton of controversy

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People who helped slaves would be fined and/or arrested. Fugitive slaves could not testify in court. Slaves were returned to their Masters down south.

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River travel was the South's main form of transportation. Most Southern towns and cities sprang up along waterways.

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Mild winters and long, hot, humid summers. Plentiful rainfall and long growing seasons. A perfect place for raising warm-weather crops that would have withered and died farther north. An especially important feature of the South was its broad, flat rivers. Many of the South's earliest towns were built at the mouths of rivers.

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The South's economy was based on agriculture. Many white Southerners were agrarians who favored a way of life based on farming. This was especially true of rich plantation owners, who did not have to do the hard work of growing crops themselves.

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Factory conditions were appalling. Kids young as 7 where working in jobs

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Filthy Streets, poor sewage systems, no clean drinking water leads to spreading disease. Wood buildings, poorly trained volunteer firefighters, fights over insurance $, leads to City wide fires. European immigration from Ireland and Germany becomes overcrowding.

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They made the Morse telegraph. New railroads, man made canals, etc.

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They started with rivers and boats. Soon slaves built the first railroad and soon after that expanded and had a lot more railroads compared to the south. The North could transport things faster than the south like there solders and weapons.

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In the North, there were a variety of climates and natural features. Northerners adapted to these geographical differences by creating different industries and ways of making a living.

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they where poorly heated and back then they didn't have hospitals for mantel illness so they put them in prison but Dorthea Dix tried to make it different and didn't think that it was right.

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Movement called for an end to slavery. Abolitionists were the reformers working to end slavery all over US. Used their newspapers, made speeches and dedicated themselves to helping slaves escape.

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Pushed for an end to alcohol abuse and the problems created by it. Many women took part in this social reform Considered alcohol to be morally wrong

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they could not vote. could not attend college. Could not enter professions such as medicine or law. Limited rights in land ownership. Led by Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott.

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Horace Mann created colleges to train teachers to teaches youngsters do they could be educated but only the rich could attend school, the poor where not even thought of going to school. Many Americans couldn't read and write.

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Americans wanted to make things better and stop slavery and stop beating people, kids in schools and prisons...

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-Unknown. I thought I would start off with a quote.