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Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave was a law for southern slave owners with legal weapons to capture escaped slaves in free states. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
The book called Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about the life under slavery, the book is about a character who is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. 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. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was an election of four candidates, in which Abraham Lincoln defeated southern Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
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 States Army that started the American Civil War. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was a battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack during the American Civil War, it was also history's first duel between ironclad warships. -
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh took place when 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It asked to change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the southern states. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a battle which was inside and outside the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was between the Union and Confederate forces. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment is about neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Surrender at Appomattox
It was battle which was the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Two general were fighting until one of the generals, confederate general Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Union general, Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Ford's Theater is a historic theater in Washington, D.C.
