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"Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the US federal government."-google

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"Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C."-google

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"Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis"-Google

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"The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group. The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States."-Google. They would try to get rid of any and all African American people.

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Much of the South laid in ruins. Many free slaves were poor and did not have anywhere to go. Abraham Lincoln had plans to help freed African American but then he was assassinated and Andrew Johnson became president.

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In the North, All the Northern states experienced four distinct seasons
Both freezing winters to hot, humid summers.
Different areas of the North had distinctive natural features.
The jagged New England coast, for example, had hundreds of bays and inlets that were perfect for use as harbors.

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Massachusetts becomes the first state to use taxes to set up public schools, free from religion.
Only wealthy, no poor
Many Americans couldn’t read or write.

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Abolitionists were the reformers working to end slavery all over US. They did everything in their power to help slaves escape their cruel "Owners". Some were caught and were harshly punished for trying to escape the incredibly tough conditions of slavery.

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To make change in order to make improvement end abuses or correct injustices in society.

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People tho hid or helped runaway slaves would be arrested and or fined. Fugitive slaves could not testify in court and slaves were returned to their masters down South.

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The Souths geography was very different than that of the North. Summers were hot and humid and the winters were mild.

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Missouri was decided as a slave state and Maine was decided as a free state.

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The South was where rich and powerful people lived. The economy was mostly dependent on slaves to help grow and harvest cotton. The economy in the South was agriculture growing products like indigo, cotton, rice, sugarcane and tobacco. African Americans were enslaved to help work on farms to help grow these products.

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Transportation in the South mostly consisted of the river travel. since the south was mostly built over waterways. This was the most efficient way to travel from place to place.

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Men would go out and drink, then go back home and hit their wife and kids. Many women took part in this social reform. This was a reason why gangs first started. people lost their jobs, people struggled with alcohol

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The economy in the North grew quickly. The economy in the North was stronger than the Southern Economy.

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Transportation became quicker and more efficient. Better railroads were built and people traveled on steamboat and River Travel became more common.

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The great awakening in America was when people began to try to improve America please God. It became very religious and people wanted a way with God. America was trying to improve and better everything to show God that they are capable to do better.

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Prisons were poorly heated, cramped, and there was not enough food for the inmates. In these prisons, there were mentally unstable.

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Before the 1800s mentally ill people were to not leave their house were to be imprisoned. An asylum is an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill. Dorothea Dix changed that and by 1815 there were asylums to help the mentally ill be safe.

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New ideas that a person’s actions, or free will determined where they would end up.

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Before then, many Americans believed in predestination or the idea that God decided the fate of their soul at birth.

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Revivals encouraged people to return to god. Their listeners prayed, shouted, sang hymns, and sometimes even cried for hours or fell down in frenzies.