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A law passed as part of the compromise of 1850, which provivded southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves wether or not to allow slavery within thier borders.
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The United States presidental election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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General P.G.T. Baureguard, in command of the confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the union garrison holding Fort Sumter, Robert Anderson, Garrison commander surrenderd the fort and was evacuated the next day.
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In the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, A harbour at the mouth of the James River.
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Confederate soldiers under the command Gen Albert Sidney Johnston poured out the nearby woods and struck a line of Union Soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg.
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President Abraham LIncoln issued the Emanipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody Civil War.
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Early Union Succes faltered faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll.
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The 13th amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involunrtary sertvitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exsist in the United States.
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With his army surrounded, his men weak and exauhsted, Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his army to General Grant.
