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The History of 1850-1865

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  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act
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    The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18. 1850, as part of the compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free Soilders.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
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    The Kansas, Nebraska Act</a>In Janruary 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that divided the land west of missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.

  • The Election of 1860

    The Election of 1860
    The Election of 1860
    The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.

  • The Battle of Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter
    The Battle of Fort Sumter
    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.

  • The Monitor vs. The Merrimack

    The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
    The Monitor vs the Merrimack
    The March 9, 1862, battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack (CSS Virginia) during the Civil War (1861-65) was history's first dual between ironclad warships.

  • The Battle of Shiloh

    The Battle of Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh
    On the Morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soilders under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soilders occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg wa fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By Union and Confederate Forces during the American Civil War.

  • Surrender at Appotomox

    Surrender at Appotomox
    Surrender at Appotomox With his army surrounded, his men weak and exhasted, Robert E. Lee realised there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his army to genral grant.

  • The Emancipation Proclomation

    The Emancipation Proclomation
    <ahref='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/' >Emancipation
    Proclomation</a>
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation on Janruary 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloddy civil war. The Proclomation declared "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free,

  • The Thirteenth Ammendment

    The Thirteenth Ammendment
    The 13th Ammendment
    The 13th Ammendment to the Constitution declared that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall excist in the United States, or any place subject to thier jurisdiction."