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Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html
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Timeline
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
http://www.historynet.com/uncle-toms-cabin A novel made to give a perspective of slavery and the ultimate reality. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed there citizens to decide if they wanted slavery or not -
Election of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp This was the election that president Lincoln got elected. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ In the afternoon Confederate soldiers opened fire on the Union Garrison -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack A Battle during the Civil War with ships in the James River -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/shiloh.htm A battle that occurred because the confederate general was gonna surprise Ulysses S. Grant -
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/emancipation-proclamation-150.html A document that allowed slaves to fight -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html?tab=facts?referrer=https://www.google.com/ The Confederates attacked northern territory. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=40 Law that abolished slavery -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.historynet.com/appomattox-court-house-battle One of the wars that ended the Civil War -
Assassination of President Lincoln
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln.htm In a theater that he was in watching a play and John Wilkes Booth