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The fugutive slave act were a pair of federal laws. It stated that any runaway slave were to be captured and returned to their owner. It was written in 1793, but it was passed in 1850.
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This bookis an anti-slavery novel. It sold over 300,000 copies.
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TheKansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to allow slavery in their borders.
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The election of 1860 brought Abraham Lincoln to office.
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Thebattle at Fort Sumter took place near Charleston, South Carolina. It took over the cousre of 2 days.
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Boatswere a big transportation back in the day.
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<a
href='http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/' >The</a> Battle of Shiloh was fought in Tennessee. It is also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. -
WhenLincoln issued the Proclaimation, the Civil War had been in it's third bloody year. It stated that "All persons held as slaves shall be set free".
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TheBattle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3. It lead up to Abraham Lincoln's death.
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TheThirteenth Admendment abolished slavery stating that "Neither Slavery or involuntary service unless permitted by crime".
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Surrender at the Appomattox took place after 4 years of over 630,000 deaths and one million casualites.
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Abrahamand Mary Lincoln made their way to the play, neither of them knew only one of them would make it out alive. John Wilkes Booth had come up with a plan (or lack there of) to kill Abraham by shooting him in the back of the head.
