Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian Revolution.
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Missouri was admitted as a slave state while Maine, previously part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a free state to preserve the numerical balance in the Senate. In addition, Congress established a geographical boundary in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory that meant slavery was prohibited north of latitude 36°30′.
The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defence. The court set them free.
Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.
Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I presume?”
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3 which informed the enslaved African Americans of their emancipation.
Daniel Webster’s “Seventh of March” speech saw the prominent senator from Massachusetts, who was a staunch defender of the Union, deliver an address endorsing the compromise measures as a means to preserve national unity and avert a possible civil war.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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