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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was to help insure Southerners keep a tight hold on their slaves. The slaves were called the slaveholders property and the government with this act assisted the South.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
It was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel that sold 300,000 books in 3 months. She wrote the book, because of the tight fugitive slave laws that were created which caused people to use the underground railroad. That is where she found the inspiration of the book: people running from being enslaved.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kanas Nebraska Act allows those two states to decide whether or not to have slavery within their state borders.
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Battlel at Fort Sumter
General Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, fired on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. On April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.
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The Battle of the Monitor and Marrimack
First duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a different style of naval warfare. The Northern built "Marrimack" was salvaged by the Confederates. The Union ironclad "Monitor" came at the same time to a battle between North and South.
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The Battle of Shiloh
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was to help with the wars and disputes about slavery between North, South, and the Border States.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The most important engagement of the American Civil War. It was important to the freedom of slaves, but it did not end it.
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Surrender at Appomattox
The battle General Lee surrendered to General Grant because his men were surrounded with no way to win.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
He was assassinated to rally the remaining of Confederate troops to continue fighting for slavery. John Wilkes Booth and several others planned to kill him during the funniest part of the play hoping the laughter would muffle to sound of the gun shot.
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The 13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery and the colored people were free at last.
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