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The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that stated that all slaves are returned to their owner and punish anyone who helps the slave. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
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Harriet Beecher Stowe created an anti-slavery novel that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It is said that she is the real reason for bringing up the dispute.
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Half of Nebraska was for slavery and the other half against. People started fighting so it was the cititzens decision to become a slave or nonslave state. http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act
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It was the presidential election and the Union had been seperated by deciding if the state was a slave state. Abraham Lincoln was nominated as president. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
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Confederate forces surrounded and shot at Fort Sumter. The next day the Union commander, Major Robert Anderson, surrendered and evacuated the next day.
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A Union vessel, Monitor, collided with a similar Confederate vessel, Merrimack. The Merrimack, now named Viriginia, hit the pilot house and injured the captain. The Monitor wrecked into shallow water and the Virginia ran out of ammo.
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Confederate soldiers came out of the woods and ambushed Union soldiers near the Pittsburg Landing. The Union was surrounded but held thier ground for two days. It was the bloodiest battle in American history at the time.
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It was a docoment that stated that all slaves in the Union states were to be free. https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
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General Robert E. Lee led an ambush on the Union around a small town called Gettysburg. He forced the Union back gaining all their land. During the next two days the Union fought long and hard and gained all their land back and killing several Confederates on the way.
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after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made a law that states that say slavery and involuntary servitude are illegal, abolishing slavery. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
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With the Confederate Army weak Robert E. Lee had to surrender. They met at a house owned to Wilam McLean. After hours finding the conclusion the war had ended. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
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While Lincoln was watching a play at a theatre only days after the Confederate surrender he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination
