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Slavery and the American South
- Slavery in early America
- Slavery and the Constitution
- "King Cotton"
- Life as a slave
- Two different economies
- Words to Know
- People to Know
- Quakers Lead Opposition to Slavery
- Thomas Jefferson, the Slaveowner Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence
- Remembrances of Slavery
When America's Founding Fathers (the country's earliest leaders) established the United States in the late 1700s, they decided to build the new nation on principles of freedom and liberty for its people. But during...
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- The Northern Abolitionist Movement
- 1800–1858: The North and the South Seek Compromise
- 1857–1861: The South Prepares to Secede
- 1861: Creation of the Confederacy
- Europe's View of the War
- 1861: The War Begins
- 1862: Near Victory for the Confederacy
- 1863: The Tide Turns
- Women in the Civil War
- 1864: The North Tightens Its Grip
- Blacks in the Civil War
- 1865: Victory for the North
- 1865–1877: Reconstruction
