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The Fugitive slave acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves withing the territory of the United States
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854
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United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina.
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The March 9, 1862, battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack during the American Civil War was history's first duel between ironclad warships.
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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee
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Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect.
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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.
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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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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.
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States
