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1.

SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

  • African men and women were kidnapped and brought to North America from 1600's-1700's.
  • Most worked on southern plantations
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SLAVERY

  • Needed to grow crops of tobacco,cotton,rice,and sugar.
  • Northern states didn't want slavery in their territories.
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NORTHWEST ORDINANCE OF 1787

  • Stated that each new state formed from the Northwest Territories was to decide for itself on weather to allow slavery.
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MICHIGAN

  • When it became a state its constitution made slavery illegal.
  • Michigans first abolition group was the Logan Female Antislavery Society.
5.

1850S

  • California became a free state but congress also passed the fugitive slave act.
  • It stated that even run away slaves in free states if coughs had to go back to their owners.
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MICHIGAN 1855

  • Michigan passed the Personal Liberty Law to protect former enslaved citizens.
  • Gave a right to trial to win freedom.
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VOCAB

  • Plantations: Large farms where slaves worked.
  • Illegal: against the law
  • Abolitionists: people who wanted to end slavery.
  • Fugitive: is someone who tries to escape.
  • Liberty: freedom from another persons control.
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UNDERGROUND RAILRAOD

  • Was a system of secret routs used by people escaping slavery.
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MICHIGAN UNDERGROUND

  • Was an important part of the UNDERGROUND Railroad.
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MICHIGAN HEROS

  • Laura Haviland was a Quaker who helped thousands escape to Canada through Michigan, known as the superintendent of the UNDERGROUND Railroad.
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1860

  • The Republican Party chose Abraham Lincoln to run for president.
  • After they secede from the United States which means slips from the us and became two.
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1860

  • South Carolina seceded from the United States, ten more southern states soon followed to form the Confederate States of America.
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THE CONFEDERACY

  • Had their own President Jefferson Davis and its own Constitution, it allowed slavery.
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APRIL 12, 1861

  • Civil war began when confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter off the coast of South Carolina.
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MICHIGAN TROOPS

  • Almost 1,000 Michiganians rushed to join the fight.
  • Amount the first soldiers from the west to enlist in the army for the Union.
  • They got to Washington D.C. On May 16, when Lincoln saw them he said Thank god for Michigan.
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CIVIL WAR

  • More than 90,000 Michigan men fought in the civil War.
  • George Custer led the Michigan Cavalry Brigade.
  • Michigans best known group was the 24th Michigan InfAntry part of the Iron Brigade. Fought in the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.
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FREEDOM AND VICTORY

  • September 17, 1862 23,000 men died at Antietam Maryland it was a Union Victory.
  • Lincoln had been waiting for a win and soon after on September 22,1862 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Witch meant that all enslaved people living in the confederacy were free.
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END OF THE WAR

  • In April 1865 the Union army cAptured Richmond Virginia and the confederacy soon surrendered.
  • At the end about 620,000 Union and confederacy soldiers were killed.

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