50 Things You Should Know About the Civil War YA Classics A Newbery Award winner

A Newbery Award winner

" "The Road Not Taken

When Ned's apple begins to rot

But her task is far from over

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50 Things You Should Know About the Civil War YA Classics A Newbery Award winnerIn 1860, the North and the South of the United States were very different societies. The North had abolished slavery in the early 19th century, while the South still relied on slaves to work on its farms and plantations. The first chapter will set the scene, showing how simmering tensions over the right to keep slaves in the new states that were being founded as the country pushed westwards eventually erupted into war following the election of the pro