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Fugitive Slave Act
A law passed in the compromise of 1850 which allowed southern slaveholders with legal weapons to take runaway slaves who fled to the free states where slavery was not allowed.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
This was a novel for anti-slavery and helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. The novel has 391 pages and was wrote by an American author named Hammatt Billings.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to allow slavery within their borders
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Election of 1860
It was an election between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas and George B. McClellan.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
It was a bombardment on Fort Sumter by the Confederate States Army and the return gunfire and surrender that started the American Civil War.
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The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
It was a battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor during the American Civil War. Also was the first duel between ironclad warships.
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The Battle of Shiloh
Battle is also known as the Battle of the Pittsburgh Landing was a battle in the western theater
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The Emancipation Proclamation
It was a proclamation and executive order made by Abraham Lincoln.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Was fought by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. It involved the largest number of casualties and is often said to be the war's turning point.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The amendment says that slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, should exist within the United States or any other place.
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Surrender at Appomattox
Was one of the last battles fought in the American Civil War. The signing of the surrender documents were signed April 9 in the afternoon.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
It was the assassination of our 16th president who was killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth while attending a play called "Our American Cousin" in the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln