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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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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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It allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to allow slavery within their borders
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It was an election between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas and George B. McClellan.
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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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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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Battle is also known as the Battle of the Pittsburgh Landing was a battle in the western theater
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It was a proclamation and executive order made by Abraham Lincoln.
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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 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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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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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
