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fugitive slave act
The fugitive slave act happened on September 18, 1850 as part of the compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and northern free-soilers.
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Uncle Tom's cabin published
Uncle Tom's cabin was published by an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within the borders.
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Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil war.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle at Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina that started the American Civil War.
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assassination of president lincoln
President Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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the monitor vs. the merrimack
The monitor vs. the Merrimack was called the Battle of Hampton Roads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads -
the battle of shiloh
It was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6-7 1862 in southwestern Tennessee.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation proclamation changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free".
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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surrender at Appomattox
The surrender at Appomattox was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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The thirteenth amendment
It abolished slavery in the United States and provided that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convinced, shall exist within the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Unite...
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