... or she could come and get them. If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. The search for runaway slaves has become a witch hunt. Any African Americans can be condemned simply with an accusation. Even a free man has no right to a trial by jury. Ordinary people ... Brown prepares to take the fight to the heart of the South. His plan to capture the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia was the biggest collection of weapons in the South. Browns wanted to am slaves and lead a salve rebellion. Brown had his five...

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... northern Tennessee and broken the Confederate first line of defence for the Mississippi Valley. In May 1862 Union forces tried to take Vicksburg using their ships, but the Confederates had strengthened their defences by setting up large batteries to block passage on the river. In June, several other attacks failed to get to Vicksburg by the River and it was realized by the Union high command that ... if Vicksburg was going to fall, it would be in the hands of a huge combined land and naval operation. Earlier victories at Iuka and Corinth in ... to reduce the Vicksburg. In the spring of...

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... with General Joseph Hooker. Still, president Lincoln didn't find his right general yet at this time. On April 27, came to the Battle of Chancellorsville with new Northern general, Hooker, but somehow, the luck didn't come to North side. He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. Lee split his army, attacking a surprised Union army in three places and almost completely defeating ... over. Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's forces. Lee surrendered to Grant...

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... to be industrialized due to everyone working in factories. Politically each side felt that with more states on one side or the other meant more representation in congress. The south wanted more state freedom and the north wanted more of a central power government. Abraham Lincoln's election made a bigger issue for the South because they knew that their views and wants were in trouble ... in April seventeen Union ships move to the Mississippi River and take New Orleans. May 31, the Battle of Seven Pines takes place and the Union almost pulls off the victory. They badly injure the commander...

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... Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Currently the county of Larue. His father, Thomas, and grandfather, Abraham Lincoln were born in Rockingham County, Virginia. His other ancestors had come from Berks, Pennsylvania. The family was originally of the Quaker religion, but had fallen away from the faith (American Presidents.com). Thomas was the youngest son, and was also a wanderer. He was a hard working ... left their homestead in Indiana and headed for Illinois. They made the trip by ox and wagon. They reached Macon County later in the month of March. They settled...

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... based on the politics of either the union or confederacy. Kentucky's Importance Kentucky was important to both the union and the confederacy. More so than the other Border States the reason for this was more geographical reasons than political reasons. Kentucky was rich with waterway access. Access from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers helped to determine the geographical divide for the South, as the Ohio River helped to determine the boundary for the north. Lincoln ... could persuade Kentucky to actively join the union's cause. Lincoln realized that Kentucky, along with the other Bo...

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... asked Mrs. Orville Browning to marry him but she said no. Lincoln met his wife, Mary Todd, at the grand cotillion in honor of the completion of the new capital building in 1839. They got engaged but a while later he broke off the engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844, Abraham and ... was to capture and smuggle Lincoln Potomac River into Confederate hands and use him as blackmail. Lincoln attended Ford's Theater that day. John climbed up into his box and made a peephole so he could watch L...

• Word Count: 1415
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• Grade Level: High School