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| The Underground Railroad | An escape route to the North for runaway slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Provided schools to educate blacks and tried to help blacks find jobs |
| Cotton Gin | This invention led to a major growth in cotton production and the demand for more slaves |
| Steel Plow | A farming tool that made tilling up the ground much easier |
| Mechanical Reaper | A farming tool that made it easier to harvest wheat |
| Telegraph | Invention by Samuel Morse in 1837 that allowed for faster communication which linked different parts of the country together |
| Abraham Lincoln | A Republican, elected as President of the United States in the election of 1860 |
| John Wilkes Booth | A supporter of the Confederacy who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln |
