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started the first anti-slavery group (abolitionist) |
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worked hard after she was freed to free others gave speeches against slavery |
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a system of secret routes that abolitionists used to help slaves escape the south |
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both blacks and whites that wanted to abolish slavery in all the US |
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Laws that stated that Northerners had to return escaped slaves to their owners. Michiganians broke these laws making Southerners ANGRY! |
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11 southern states wanted to leave the Union and form their own country |
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Fort Sumter, South Carolina |
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On April 12th, 1861 this was the site of the first battle of the Civil War |
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helped copper and iron ore to be transported and used to make war supplies |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
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law written in 1863 that declared the end of slavery, written by President Lincoln |
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a group founded after the Civil War to help farmers to solve problems |
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African American right to vote |
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In 1870 the MI. state constitution gave African-American men the right to vote |
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