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A lot of rights were taken away form African Americans. Some states required a literacy test to prove you could read and write and if you passed you can vote

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Union were the people from the north and they were against slavery and Confederates liked slavery and Union tried to stop them so the war started.

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Andrew Johnson was a President that vetoed a lot of laws that were passed by Congress and Congress tried to take his power away

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Like African Americans, Women also served in the Civil War and fought for the Union and the Confederates. Women disguised themselves and fought. While Men were occupied fighting In the Civil War, Women took over their jobs and worked in factories, farms, etc.

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During the Civil War African Americans started to join the Union and battle the Confederates, about 180,000 Africans Americans served the Union, African Americans made up 10% of the Union's army.

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People began to make new and improved technology and they were very useful. For example they made powerful canons and rifles. They made some very deadly weapons and they made the old weapons look useless. They also made some powerful warships.

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Abraham Lincoln got murdered in April 15 by John Wilkes Booth. He got shot in April 14 and died the next day. Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated

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The Ku Klux Klan were people that tried to stop black people. Their main objective was to stop black people from voting. They attacked successful black people.

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After the Civil War ended, the south recovered and became more industrialized.

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General Lee was going to invade the North but then he runs into General Meade and his troops and the Battle of Gettysburg  begins.

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They used a lot of good weapons during the Civil War. Their weapons were very accurate and 200-500 yards. They could shoot 3 shots per minute which was very good weapons back in 1861.

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Lincoln was elected for president in 1860. The country was so divided back then. When Lincoln got elected the Southern States realized that they had to take action! They then decided to break away.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist that spoke out against the cruelty of slavery in the 1800's

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Just like other times in the past, Popular Sovereignty was the way they would decide the issue of slavery during Bleeding Kansas. Pro-slavery activist rushed to Kansas and abolitionist and anti-slavery forces also rushed to Kansas

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Bleeding Kansas was when they were deciding/arguing on whether to allow slavery or not allow slavery. But that arguing then led to the beginning of the Civil War.

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For African Americans, the south was the worst place to be in. What is the reason for this? Slavery was a huge problem

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There were a lot of factories and inventions built. The problem about the factories was that a lot of young kids started to work and get badly injured. A lot of useful tools were invented to help people with a lot of stuff.

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Living in the North caused a lot of problems. Poor sewage systems and there was no clean drinking water so that lead to a lot of people getting sick. A lot of buildings were made out of wood and that means they could burn easily and there were a lot of poorly trained firefighters to stop the fire. A lot of immigrants from Germany and Ireland came to the North and it was getting overpopulated.

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Americans started to build good and faster ways for transportation. They made railroads and underground railroads for the trains, they were making faster steamboats and faster river travel, they also build better roads.

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The North was very different to the south, they had different weather; they had cold and hot weather, people from the north did not like slavery. In the south it was hot and they liked slavery.

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Men used to drink so much alcohol and women did not like it. Men started to abuse women and they did wrong things when they drank alcohol. Women started to fight to put a stop on alcohol. Women then rose awareness about violence and abuse. They also got men to stop drinking to much

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Back then women did not have any rights and they were protesting for them. They tried so hard to get rights since they were not able to vote, could not serve on juries, could not attend college, could not enter professions such as medicine or law and they had limited rights in land ownership.

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Abolitionist were the people that tried to put an end to slavery in the US. People were giving speeches and dedicated themselves to help slaves.

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School in the 1800's was horrible. only wealthy people were able to go to school. A lot of Americans were not able to read or write. Teachers also punished you when you got a question wrong or bad behavior, you would get the dunce hat and sat on a corner and would get spanked if they got a question wrong.

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Mentally ill people were kept in prison and they were treated poorly. They were poorly heated, in cramped conditions, and they did not get enough food to eat.

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Before they even realized about good choice and god, they people that when babies were born it was already decided where they would go.

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Americans started to take religion seriously and thought  how if you do good things in your life then you would go to heaven and if you were evil you would not go to He'll.

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Americans started realizing that slavery was a really bad idea and they should care more about other people and things like nature.