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The Fugitive Slave Act , or Fugitive State Law, was a part of the comprimise passed by congress in 1850 for the Northern and Southern states. It stated that upon being caught by the police, an escaped slave was to be returned to their owners.
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The war between the North and South in the United States of America concerning slavery.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was made to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also had the power to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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The Presidential Election of 1860 was the election that would serve as the motivation for the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the fight that started the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads , also reffered to as the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, was probably the most important naval battle in the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater in which Major General Ulysses S. Grant's Union army fought in.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order as well as a presidential proclamation used as a war measure and was issured by President Abraham Lincoln.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the battle that involved the most deaths in the entire war. It is also described as the war's turning point.
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The Surrender at Appomattox was when Robert E. Lee's army surrendered to the Union army. This surrender triggered many more and it signaled the end of the war.
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The Thirteenth Amendment was made to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude.
