What I learned

What I learned by Watching the Video's

· The civil war was fought in 10000 places

· More than 3 million Americans fought in it

· 3% percent of the population died in it

· 1000 men died in cold harbor

· The war made some rich and ruined others.

· Ulysses S. Grant was a general then he became President of United States

· Lincoln rised to be the greatest President.

· The last veteran of civil war which was a confederate 1959.

· The civil war opened Americans to become good or bad.

· Women were also second class citizens.

· Ralph Waldo Emerson was right in predicting that the Mexican Cession would reignite the explosive issue of slavery

· Abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman wanted to prohibit slavery in Washington, and Southerners demanded a more effective fugitive slave law.

· Most slaves led harsh and brutal lives. They were frequently whipped and sometimes branded or mutilated.

· The only significant slave rebellion during the antebellum period was Nat Turner’s Rebellion. A literate slave, Turner believed that it was his divine mission to “slay my enemies with their own weapons.” In 1831, he led about 30 slaves on a murderous rampage through tidewater Virginia, killing close to 60 men, women, and children.

· Because of this disaster government stopped education of slaves.

· Some fugitive slaves were aided by the Underground Railroad once they reached the free states. The railroad was a loosely organized group of abolitionist conductors” who operated safe-house stations in northern states and transported their passengers to freedom in Canada, beyond the reach of slave catchers. Harriett Tubman, was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor. She escaped from Maryland in 1849, and risked her freedom by returning from Canada 19 times to rescue some 300 slaves—including her parents.