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The Republicans were able to gain the presidency in the election of 1860 because they scored a decisive win in the north.
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Tubman decided to help the Union Army because she wanted freedom for all of the people who were forced into slavery, not just the few she could help on the Underground Railroad. And she convinced many other brave African Americans to join her as spies—even at the risk of being hanged if they were caught.
During the Renaissance the most important change was the fall of feudalism and the rise of a capitalist market.