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Fugitive Slave Act
This act doesn't allow slaves to escape and if they do they get in even more trouble.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850) -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery with their borders.
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Election of 1860
They had this election because, they wanted to try to make the United States a slave free country. Unfortunately the plan backfired and the republicans won the election.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
The battle at Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army. The return gunfire subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Shiloh
The battle started on Sunday, April 6, and ended on Monday, April 7. The Battle of Shiloh was also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. 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 Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. (http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html) -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It purported to change the federal legal status of more than 2 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free".
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest amount of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington DC. He died nine hours later at 7:22 AM.
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Battle of Appomattox
It was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. The Battle of Appomattox was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Lee. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the Parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House) -
The Monitor vs. The Merimack
The Monitor vs. the Merimack were two American warships that fought the first engagement between ironclad ships, when at the beginning of the Civil War, the Union forces aboandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
