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The Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave act allowed slave-hunters to capture runaway slaves without due process of law. It alwasy forced Norhtern officers to capture and give back any runaway slaves. No one was allowed to aid the slaves or they could be arrested. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The land west of Missouri was split into two different parts called Kansas and Nebraska. Senator Stephen Douglas wanted to allow the settlers in these territories to decide whether slavery would be legal there. But this would have made the anitslavery supporters mad becasue slavery would have already been oulawed in the territories. So, after a long time of debate, the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed. -
The Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was the first election where a republican won. His name was Abraham Lincoln. The other canidates were Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Consititutional Unionist John Bell, and Nothern Democrat Stephen Douglas. -
The Battle at Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is an island with a fortification in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. It is know for the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. After 34 hours of exchanging fire, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and the confederate troops occupied it for about 4 more years. -
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The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (The Battle of Hampton Roads)
The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was the first duel between ironclad warships in U.S. history. The battle was part of a Confederate plan to break up the Union blockade of the Southern ports. -
The Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh was a two day back and forth battle between the confederate soldiers and the Union soldiers. On April 6th in the morning, 40,000 confederate soldiers surrounded a line of Union soldiers. The next day, reinforcements came for the Union troops and they out numbered the Confederate army by over 10,000 troops. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as the United States were getting near their third year of a bloody civil war. The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" in the states that rebelled "are, and henceforward shall be free." Although the Emancipation Problamation did not end slavery, it did change the point of the war. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg lasted for 3 days from July 1 to July 3. On the first day of the battle, the Confederates clashed with the Union's Army of the Potomac, in Gettysburg. The next day there was even more fighting, as the Confederate soldiers attacked the Union troops from both sides. On the third day, the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, attack less than 15,000 Federal troops at the enemy's center at Cemetery Ridge. They managed defeat some Union troops but eventually surrendered. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment declared that "Neither sjlavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall havbe been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subjecct to their jurisdidction." This ammendment was passed on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. -
The Surrender at Appomattox
The Surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee had surrendered about 28,000 troops to the Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House. This ended four years of bloody battle between the North and South.
