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Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
The Fugitive slave act were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by congress in 1793, the first fugitive slave act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published
While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. Later she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had a major influence on the way the American Public Viewed slavery. The book established Stowe's reputation as a woman of letters. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
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 borders. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36 60. -
Election of 1860
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov.6 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30 pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
The American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of James River, notable as history's first duel between iron clad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
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 Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
April 9, 1865 at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted approximately two and 1/2 hours and at its conclusion the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history neared its end. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination
Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his confederate sympathies. As the conflict entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to there jurisdiction."
