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The Fugitive Slave Act were the acts of free black people being illegally captured and sold into slavery.
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It allowed people in the territories in Nebraska and Kansas to decide for themselves weather or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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In April 1860 candidates to select their president in the upcoming electioin.
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United States Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were positioned at Fort Moultire near the mouth of Charleston Harbor.
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The American Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflict as concerning preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery.
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Battle of between the Monitor and the Merrimack (CSS Virgina) during the American Cilvil War (1861-65) was history's first duel between ironclad warships.
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Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen.
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On July 1, 1863 early Union success faltered as Confederates pushid back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow's knoll.
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With his army surrounded, his mean weak and exhuasted, Robert E. Lee realized there was a little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army of General Grant.
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The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishedment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
