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Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Souther slave holding interests ans Northern Free Soldiers.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The Election of 1860
was the 19th quarennial presidential election and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
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<a href='http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads' >The Monitor vs. The Marrimack</a
was also called Battle of Hampton Roads was notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Battle of ShilohThe battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and fought in southwestern Tennessee.
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<ahref='http://https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/' >The Emancipation Proclamation</a>
changed the federal legal status in a single stroke, more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free". -
The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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The 13th Ammendment was formally abolishing slavery in the United States.
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Surrender at Appomattox
was on April 9, Confederate General rRobert E, Lee surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
was a hard time, Abraham Lincoln's killer was a Maryland native born in 1838 and remained in the North during the Civil War, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond.
