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Harpers Ferry Essays and Term Papers
Civil War TimelineFort Sumter Attacked
April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard
open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Civil War begins.
April 14, 1861. - Fort Sumter after its capture, showing damage from the
Rebel bombardment of over 3000 ...
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Frederick Douglass - The ManOn an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland,
Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house
on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven,
like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a ...
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The Civil WarManifest Destiny supplied America with new territories such as Texas, Mexico, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. When these territories were added, slavery along with state and territorial rights became prominent issues. Disputes over who was a territory and who was a ...
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Civil War CausesCivil War
The Civil War was fought primarily due to the issue of Slavery. When the constitution was drafted, both North and South States owned slaves. Whites valued independence and racial superiority. The South saw the issue of slavery as a necessary evil and had adopted it as a way of life as ...
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Road to Civil WarThe Civil War was between the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (the South), which was from 1861 to 1865. In response to Abraham Lincoln’s election, eleven southern slave states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, which was the Confederacy. The remaining ...
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