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The Fugitive Slave Act was the compromise of 1850 between Southern-slave holding interests and Northern Free-soilers.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published was an anti-slavery novel, it helped lay the ground work of the Civil War.
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This allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not.
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The Election of 1850 was when Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union Candidate John Bell.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army.
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This was history's first duel between ironclad warships.
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The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, in southwestern Tennessee.
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The Emancipation Proclamations declared that all slaves shall be free.
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This was a battle in the Civil War.
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The Thirteenth Amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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The Surrender at Appomattox was one of the last battles of The American Civil War.
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John Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in the Fords Theater.
