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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850The Fugitive Slave act was an act that stated that if a person (not of color) found a slave who had escaped from their owner they were to be returned to their owner.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_ActThe Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act that was originally designed to open up thousands of new farms, but it kind of turned into something which allowed white males to decide which plaves they would allow slavery and which places they would not (they did this by popular sovereignty.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860The Election of 1860 was the impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_SumterWar of which lead to the surrender of Fort Sumter and the American Civil War,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_RoadsThe Monitor vs. Merrimack was a battle of the Civil War and it took place in the water. It lasted for two days.
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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.htmlAt it's time, the Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in American History. The battle of Shiloh was a battle between the confederate soldiers and the union soldiers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_ProclamationThe Emancipation Proclomation was a presecutive order made by president Lincoln that said that slaves of rebels were proclaimed free.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_GettysburgThe Battle of Ghettysburg was the American War's turning point.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=the+13th+amendment&safe=strict&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eAUoVZS6J8uzogTiyIHgDQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=923#imgrc=GYJXu5ZC4iE7WM%253A%3BoRUIXDfXVCjLtM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.duhaime.org%252FPortals%252Fduhaime%252Fimages%252F13thAmendment.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.duhaime.org%252FLegalDictionary%252FT%252FThirteenthAmendment.aspx%3B252%3B255The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in America.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_HouseThe Surrender at Appomattox was one of the last wars of the American Civil War, it was the final engagement of the confedrate army.
