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Fugitive slave act
Part of the Compromise between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Toms Cabin published
Uncle Toms Cabin is a non-slavery novel by an American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C., Stephen A., and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
First battle of the American Civil war -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
First duel between ironclad warships and the begging of a new era of naval warfare -
The battle of Shiloh
A major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil war -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln -
The battle of Gettysburg
Fought by the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
The 13 Amendments
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dully convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Surrender of Appomattox
One of the last battles of the American Civil War -
Assassination of Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and confederate sympathizer, fatally shot 16th President Abraham Lincoln
