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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise between Southern slave holding interests and Northern free soilers. (www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts)
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this timeline starts with the fugitive slave act and end at the assassination of president lincoln it has alot of important events in between to.
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uncle toms life among the lowly is an anti slavery novel by american author Harriet Beecher Stowe. the novel helped lay the groundwork for the civil war.(www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published)
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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.(www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act)
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American presidential election in which republican Abraham Lincoln defeated southern democrat john c. Breckenridge, democrat Stephen a. Douglas and constitutional union candidate john bell.(www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president)
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the battle of fort Sumter was the bombardment of fort Sumter near Charleston, south Carolina by the confederate states army and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the united sates army that started the american civil war.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg)
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the battle between the monitor and the Merrimack during the american civil war was history's first duel between ironclad warships.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-hampton-roads)
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the battle of Shiloh also known as the battle of Pittsburgh landing was a major battle in the western theater of the american civil war in southwestern Tennessee.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-shiloh)
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Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary emancipation proclamation. it stipulated that if the southern states did not cease their rebellion then proclamation would go into effect.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation)
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The battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania by union and confederate forces during the american civil war.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg)
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neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist withing the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.(www.history.com/topics/black-history/thirteenth-amendment)
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the battle of Appomattox court house, fought on in the morning was one of the last battles of the american civil war.(www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/appomattox-court-house
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shortly after 10 pm actor john Wilkes booth entree the presidential box at ford's theater in Washington D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.(www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination)
