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The Fugititive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.
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General P.G.T. Beaauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union Garrison holding Fort Sumter.
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Naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mounth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
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The battle between Union soldiers and Confederates, where 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.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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George G.Meade led his forces against the Union.
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George G. Meade led his forces into battle against the Union.
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The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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Robert E. Lee's army surrounded he relized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant.
