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speedy return of any runaway slave caught in a free state. Such measures were generally enacted and enforced in the north as a way of compromise with the southern states over related matters involving slavery.
People
Sarah Bush Johnston - A Kentucky widow, Sarah Bush Johnston was remarried to Thomas Lincoln in 1819, and raised the young Abraham Lincoln from the age of ten.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln - Nancy Hanks Lincoln was Lincoln's mother. Little is known about her, as her origins are obscure and she died at a young age of milk sickness. According to Herndon, Lincoln believed her to be the product of an illegitimate union.
U.S. Grant - Union General U.S. Grant began his service in the Civil War in the western theater, enjoying early successes in Tennessee, at Shiloh, and later on the Mississippi with the seizure of Vicksburg. These victories led to his promotion by Lincoln as the overall commander of Union forces in 1864. After a bloody campaign in Northern Virginia, Grant finally arrived in Richmond and accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox a few short days later. In the years following the Civil War, Grant was venerated as a national hero, and
subsequently served as the eighteenth president of the United States, from 1869- 1877.
Events
Black Hawk War - The Black Hawk War of 1832 was fought in Illinois and Iowa when the Sac and Fox tribes led by Black Hawk unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim their native homelands.
Civil Rights Act of 1866 - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was an early attempt by the Radical Republicans to assert federal power in the southern states during reconstruction. The act, which bestowed citizenship among all blacks, was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1883 as a violation of states' rights. Civil Rights Act of 1875 - The Civil Rights Act of 1875, the last major piece of legislation passed by the federal government during reconstruction, was an attempt to desegregate all public places in the southern states. This was a highly ambitious and unrealistic goal, and quickly proved impracticable,
especially after reconstruction officially ended with the Compromise of 1877. Compromise of 1850 - The Compromise of 1850, engineered by Henry Clay, allowed for the entry of California to the Union as a free state in exchange for a stricter fugitive slave law. However, the compromise did not settle the question of slavery in the western territories, which led to increased tensions that came to a head only after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. Compromise of 1877 - After the election of 1876 ended inconclusively, a congressional committee met to determine the winner between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. In the Compromise of 1877, Southern Democrats swung their support to Hayes in exchange for an end to
