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-https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/
-https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/fugitive-slave-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20September%2018%2C%201850,returning%2C%20and%20trying%20escaped%20slaves.
-https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision#:~:text=Sandford%2C%20legal%20case%20in%20which,the%20United%20States%3B%20and%20that

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Three separate amendments intended to free slaves, instate them as citizens, and give them the right to vote.

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The American Civil War was a brother against brother fight where those loyal to the Union(Northern states) went against those who seceded from the Union to become their own(Southern states). The Union ended up coming out the victors of the war.

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After lots of pressure from Abolitionists, Abraham Lincoln finally makes the war about emancipation and he issues the Emancipation Proclamation on the third year of the Civil War. With this, if the North won the war, all slaves would be free.

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Abraham Lincoln being elected scared all southerns to their cores since they believed that Lincoln was going to take their slaves. Even though everything he supported was against the institution of slavery, this wasn't the case. Feeling increasingly oppressed, South Carolina was the first state to secede from
the Union on December 20, 1860.

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The Dred Scott v. Sanford case ruled that Dred Scott, a slave who lived in a free state, was not entitled to his freedom. It was also ruled that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.

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Kansas–Nebraska Act was an that allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders which repealed the Missouri Compromise.

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Abolitionists & Women’s Rights Teaming Up(1851)

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Abolitionists & Women’s Rights Teaming Up(1851)

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It started to become clear that African Americans weren't the only people that wanted slavery gone. Northern Abolitionists started to join the fight by helping fugitive slaves  escape north and by protesting slavery entirely. At the same time, women were fighting for their own rights. So because of people like Sojourner Truth, Abolitionists and women's rights activists began teaming up and fighting for each other's goals.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book made by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicts the issues of southern slavery with heavy themes of Christianity that helped people at the time genuinely sympathize with African Americans. This became fuel for the flame that was the American Civil War.

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The Fugitive Slave Act comes from the Compromise of 1850 where five separate bills were passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 to make a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. People started to realize that slaves were escaping to states where slavery was illegal. So the Fugitive Slave Act was supposed to make sure that slaves returned to their owners.

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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

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The 3/5ths Compromise was an agreement was made between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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Beginning of Slave Trade in North America(1525)

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Beginning of Slave Trade in North America(1525)

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From about 1525 to 1866, 12 and ½ million Africans were taken from their homeland. There were boats built by European merchants that were capable of carrying hundreds of people. Before boarding the ships, the enslaved people were stripped of their clothes and had their heads shaven. They would be stuffed into compartments with ceilings as low as their waists, this is where they would spend most of their journey. Since there were no sanitary facilities, the enslaved people would have to relieve themselves where they were, which created terrible living conditions and lots of diseases. Enslaved people were also forced to entertain the crew, and women were raped but sometimes still had to keep the child. 15% of them died on the journey.
The first enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America. Almost every founding father had a slave. European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, and more plentiful labor source than indentured servants. Enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the southern coast. Enslaved people in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population, yet they were usually prohibited from learning to read and write.