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The fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a controvisal law that allowed slave-hunters to so sieze alleged fuitive slaves without due process of the law.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act appealed the Missouri Compromise and made it so that each territrory could decide the issue of slavery for themselves. When the kansas-nebraska bill was passed states were divieded by pro- and anti- slavery which evenutally developed into the civil war.
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In the Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as president with almost no support from the South. Lincoln won the election by 108 electoral votes. The election served as an immediate impetus outbreak for the civil war.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the start of the civil war and ended with the surrender of Fort Sumter. General P.G.T. Beauregard was in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor.
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The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called the battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia, was the first noteable battle of two ironclad warships and was the beginning of a new naval era.
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The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the civil war. The Unions, commanded by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, made the Confederates retreat in one of the bloodiest battles in United States History.
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The Emancipation Proclomation was a presidential proclomation by Abraham Lincoln that proclaimed that all the slaves were to be freed in all of the ten states that were in rebellion.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final battle of Gen. Robert E. Lee's army before they surrendered to the union and one of the last battles of the civil war.This event triggered a series of surrenders across the south, signaling the end of the war.
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The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude exccept as a punishment for a crime. It was passed at the end of the civil war when power from the southern states was weak to assure it to be easily passed by congress.
