The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. ... Union men mainly believed the war was to emancipate the slaves. ... The Revenue Act of 1861 introduced the income tax to help finance the war. ...

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This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada. ... Their homes often became stations on the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. After the Civil War began in 1861, abolitionists rallied to the Union cause. ... She became the most famous leader of the underground railroad, which aided slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. ...

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He founded an antislavery newspaper, wrote several autobiographical books, and helped recruit African Americans for the Union army during the Civil War. ... He spoke in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Indiana, Scotland, England, Ohio, Maine, Canada, Connecticut, and mostly in New York and Pennsylvania, for that was where he could reach the largest...

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Writers differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. ...

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