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The Compromise of 1850 declared California a free state
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When Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin it demanded that slaves be let free.
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In the Kansas Nebraska act was when the government told the territorries of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they would allow slavery.
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In the election of 1860 Lincoln won for getting 39.9 percent of the votes.
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In the Battle at Fort Sumter the Confederates made the Union surrender.
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The Battle of Monitor vs. Marrimack started a new era of Naval warfare.
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The Battle of Shiloh was a battle that started when the Confederates overan the Federal army.
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The Emancipation Proclomation declared that all slaves shall be free.
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The Battle of Gettysburg is when the Union regained lost ground from the battles they have lost.
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The Thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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The Surrender at Appomattox was when the Confederates were out armed and tired and had no choice but to surrender.
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When President Lincoln was assassinated there was 10,000 Federal troops, detectives, and police on the search for his killer.