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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a law saying that all slaves that were upon capture must be returned to their owners and this went for the free states as well. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraksa Act created the territory of Kansas and Nebraska. The original reason for the act was to open up many of thousands of new farms and make a fesible Midwestern Transcontiental Railroad. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidental election. It served as an immediat impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
General P.G.T . Beauregard in command of Confederate forces around the Harbor and opened fire. and Major Robert Anderson surrenered. -
The Monitor vs. The Merimack
The Monitor vs. The Merimack was a naval engagment fo the Civil War. -
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was confederate soldiers that had a war and drove federal forces off their camps and and had formed lines and had war. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a doucment declaring that all people being held as slaves with in the rebellious states are free. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagment of the American Civil War. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment The Thirteenth Amendent states that " Neither slavery or invoulntay servitude, except as a punishment of crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist whithin the United States or any place subject to their jurisdicition. -
Surrender at Appomattox
With his weak and exhausted army Robert E. Lee realized that it was time for him and his men to consider surrendering and they went with it.
