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Fugitive Slave Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
It was one of the acts that was passed on that freed several hundreds of slaves -
Kansas Nebraska Act
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp
Kansas Nebraska Act may have been a single significant event leading to the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select there canidates for president in the up coming election. -
battle of fort sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
The monitor vs the Merrimack
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389515/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack also called Battle of Hamptonn Roads. -
Battle of shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html
On the Morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate Soilders were under the command of Gen. -
The Emancipation Promclamation
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
On the twenty second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, a proclamation was issued by the president of the United States containing, among other things, the following wit. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html
Was a battle between men.