Civil War Timeline

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  • The Fugitive Slave Law

    The Fugitive Slave Law
    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    , Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act
    was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

  • Birth of the Republican Party

    Birth of the Republican Party
    The gavel fell to open the Party's first nominating convention, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1856, announcing the birth of the Republican Party as The party was born of hostility to slavery

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired