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GLORY
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
 SLAVERY WAS NOT
THE ISSUE FOR
HIM. IT WAS TO
SAVE THE UNION
 REALIZES THE U.S.
COULDN’T
SURVIVE WITH ½
SLAVE AND ½
FREE
CONFEDERATE STATES OF
AMERICA
JEFFERSON DAVIS- PRESIDENT
 AFTER ELECTION
OF LINCOLN IN
1860 SOUTH
CAROLINA IS FIRST
TO SECEDE
FORT SUMTER
FIRST SHOTS OF THE CIVIL WAR
EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
SEPTEMBER 1862
 ANNOUNCED
AFTER BATTLE OF
ANTIETAM
 FREED ALL
SLAVES
EFFECTIVE ON JAN
1863
EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
SEPTEMBER 1862
 PROCLAMATION
WOULD
OFFICIALLY MAKE
SLAVERY A CAUSE
FOR THE WAR
JOHN ANDREW
GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS
 LEADER IN THE
CREATION OF
BLACK REGIMENTS
 FORMED 54TH
MASSACHUSETTS
FREDRICK DOUGLASS
ABOLITIONIST AND HELP FORM THE 54TH
MASSACHUSETTS
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
LEADER OF 54TH MASSACHUSETTS
DISCRIMINATION
1. POOR EQUIPMENT +
SUPPLIES
2. ASSIGN LABOR
DETAILS NOT BATTLE
3, RECEIVED LESS
MONEY THAT WHITE
SOLDIERS
4.GIVEN DIFFERENT
COLOR UNIFORMS
THAN WHITES
FORT PILLOW MASSACRE
300 AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED
AND EXECUTED
NATHAN BEDFORD
FORREST
JAMES MONTGOMERY
ORDERED SHAW AND 54TH TO BURN DARIEN GEORGIA
JAMES ISLAND S. CAROLINA
FIRST BATTLE ACTION FOR THE 54TH
MASSACHUSETTS
FORT WAGNER
CONFEDERATE FORT PROTECTING
CHARLESTON S. CAROLINA
GEORGE STRONG
IN COMMAND OF UNION TROOPS AT THE
BATTLE OF FORT WAGNER
FORT WAGNER
WILLIAM CARNEY
54TH MASSACHUSSETS. MEDAL OF HONOR
WINNER
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