HTF Week 12 Project
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- September, 1850, Washington D.C.
- The Compromise of 1850 has been passed! This most notably ratifies the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing Southern slave owners to retrieve escaped slaves from the North that were previously in their possession.
- 1890, Ireland
- December, 1860, South Carolina
- Those d*mned Yankees are trying to take our slaves!
- We should secede and make our own nation!
- May, 1861, Boston, Massachusetts
- Did you hear? Virginia has seceded from the Union!
- My goodness! That makes eleven states that have seceded from the US!
- I sure hope a Civil War doesn't break out! (It did.)
- January, 1863 Northern United States
- As of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans can now legally enlist in the Union Army!
- I, General Robert Shaw, will be your commanding officer for the rest of the war. I look forward to leading this platoon.
- My goodness! 160 acres of free land in the United States!
- FREE LAND!Free land in America! Take your claim!160 acres!
- It's a sham! There's no way that's true.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850#:~:text=The%20Compromise%20of%201850%20was,in%20the%20Mexican%E2%80%93American%20War.https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/south-carolina-secession.htm#:~:text=%2D%20Charleston%20Mercury%20on%20November%203,Union%20on%20December%2020%2C%201860.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_Stateshttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-oklahoma-land-rush-begins#:~:text=On%20March%203%2C%201889%2C%20Harrison,at%20noon%20on%20April%2022.
- 1891, Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean
- Are you going to America for the Land Runs?
- Land Runs? What're you talking about sir? I'm going for the industrial jobs in Boston.
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