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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act allowed slave hunters to come into free states and take "colored people" to slavery.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also repealed the Missouri Comprimise and left the choice of Kansas becoming a slave state up to popular soverginty (the people decided).
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Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was the 19th presidential election in the United States which was when Abraham Lincoln was elected and was the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak, for the civil war.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
the Battle at Fort Sumter started the Civil War. The battle was followed by declerations of cession from seven southern states.
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The Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was the first naval battle between two iron clad war ships in the Civil War which were named the USS Moniter and CSS Virginia (which was built from the remains of the USS Merrimack).
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The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh occured in Tennesse woods where a union army under Major General Ulyssess S Grant was surprise attacked by Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Pierre G. T. Beauregard. Grant got unexpected reinforcements and launched a counter attack. The battle went on for days.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidention proclimation and an exectutive order issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It proclaimed that the slavesa in the ten rebellious states were free.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg had the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil War. The Union won the battle and afterwards Abraham Lincoln gave the famous Gettysburg adress.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude exept as punishment for crime. The law also enables Congress to abolish modern forms of slavery such as sex trafficking.Thirteenth Amendment -
Surrender at Appomattox
The surrender at Appomattox occured after a battle a the Appomattox court house. It triggered a series of surrenders across the south.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
