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www.history.com The fugitive slave acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the terriory of the United States.
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www.history.com Uncle Tom's cabin Published was an anit-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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www.history.com The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the terriotries of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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www.ushistory.org The Election of 1860 served as the emmidiate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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www.history.com The Battle at Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charelston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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www.history.comThe Battle between the Monitor and te Merrimack during the American Civil War.
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www.civilwar.org One morning on April 6,1862 the Confederate Army of the Mississippi under Johnston launched an attack on Maj. Gen. Grant's army of the Tennessee near Pittsburg Landing.
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www.history.com The Emmancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
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www.history.com The Battle of Gettysburg was fouhgt in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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www.history.com The Thirteenth Amendment was the Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
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www.history.com The surrender at Appomattox in 1865 was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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www.americaslibrary.gov The assassination of president lincoln was shortly after 10 pm when John Wilkes Booth entered the presidents booth and shot him in the head.
