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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement.
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Election of 1860 was a presidental election.
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Battle at Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter
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The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies.
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The morning of The Battle of Shiloh poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers surrounding the ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
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They fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863 mand is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil war.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Battle of Appomattox was one of the last battles of the Civli War. It was fought the morning of April 9, 1865. Then Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
