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Justin Balstad, Seth Holm, Blake Fossen

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Confederate general that was forced to surrender at the apottomax court house.

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Robert Gould Shaw was an American soldier in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. Born into a prominent abolitionist family, he accepted command of the first all-black regiment

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He graduated from west point. He stressed states' rights to secede from the union. He was the president of the confederate side during the civil war.

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was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

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He was an actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln because of South's lost in civil war. This showed that there were many people in the south who were still not conformed to the ideas of emancipation of slaves.

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He was a black slave who fought for his rights. His court case failed but this stimulated the union to take actions for abolitionism.

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He was a half white and half black American who was a talented orator. He was born from a black woman but he had a white man's genes in him. he got his education from his step-mom, who acknowledged his brilliance at early age.

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He led the rebellion against slavery. The rebellion failed; however, he made the issue of slavery a serious topic to others by his action.

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She hid slaves, and led them into Northern territory to free the black slaves. Because of her act of freeing black slaves, people started calling her the "Black Moses". Her act of leading slaves out of slavery led to big conflicts between the north and the south.

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he is known as the "Great Compromiser" by many people. He proposed the compromise of 1850 which basically only freed the state of California. Because abolitionism wasn't dealt with in the compromise, the idea of war was roaming around the time.

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Began April, 12th 1861
Ended May, 9th 18

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He was a very short man who opposed abolition, therefore he had many debates with Lincoln. He favored the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 which he thought would neutralize the situation of slavery but worsened it to provoke the civil war.

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She was the author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book caused great conflict between the south and the north. The book had a big involvement of abolishing slavery.

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Federals under John Pope are defeated by CSA forces combined under General Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet

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Lee attacks McClellan for the next seven days at Mechanicsville, Gaunes Mill, Goldings'  farm, Savages' Station, Battle of Glendale and Malvern Hill

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September 1862 Maryland Heavily outnumbered, Lee's troops face McClellan in bloody fighting. Over 23,000 casualties (more than all previous American wars combined). Lee retreats to Virginia

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Battle in Tennessee confederate general Albert Sidney Johnson is killed on the first day of battle. Union wins this battle

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Fort was left in the Unions hands because General Ulysses S Grant surrendered. This is how he got his nickname "unconditional surrender"

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Lexington is taken by confederate forces under sterling price

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Was fought near Manassas, Virginia. The union is initially driving back confederate forces but the arrival of troops under General Joseph E. Johnston initiates a series of reverses that McDowells army retreated

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First land battle of the war in Virginia. Not one of the battles with many deaths

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This started the war. The north attacked Fort Sumter in Carolina.

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President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the north and south.