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The United Congress passed The Fugitive Slave Act or the other name for it The Fugitive Slave Act, this happened on September 18, 1850
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This anti-slavery novel by the American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852. This novel is called Uncle Tom's Cabin and according to Will Kaufman it helped lay the ground work for the Civil War.
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On May 30, 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. This act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they want slaves or not within their borders. The Act served as a repel to the Missouri Compromise
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On the day of November 6, 1860 Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas
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In the American Civil War the Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle fought. The unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina by Major Robert Anderson small union garrison as the intense Confederate artillery bombardment but had been proceeded by months of siege-like conditions.
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Battle of Pittsburgh Landing but known as The Battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennessee was a major battle of the American Civil War
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. This was about putting the Union back together and not freeing the slaves but in order to win Lincoln needed to add more in his military so he made the Emancipation Proclamation.
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On the morning of April 9, 1865 the battle of Surrender at Appomattox was one of the last battles fought in the American Civil War
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The American politician Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president and Lawyer of the United States until April 15, 1865 when he was assassinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
