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Fugitive Slave Act
the fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act Was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the compromise of 1850 between southern Slave-holding interests and Northerner free-soldiers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the lowly is an anti-slavery novel by America author Harriet Beecher Stowe, Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the civil War" according to will Kaufman. -
Election of 1860
United Sates presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln Defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate Sates Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the united states Army that started the American Civil War. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The March 9 1862, battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack(CSS Virginia) during the American Civil War (1861-65)was history's first duel between ironclad warships. -
The Battle of Shiloh
On the morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
The Battle Of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by Union and confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
The Thirteenth Amendment.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united state, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Surrender at Appomattox
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, Fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the united sates from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their boarders. the Act serve the repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibitive d slavery north of latitude 36 30.
