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FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
<a href='http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html ' > The Fugitive Slave Law started in Feb. 12 1850.The Fugitive Slave law endend on July 17, 1862. In early as 1643, colonists had recognized a need for the regulation of fugitive slaves. 1823 fugitive slaves were arrested in Boston, but they managed to escape from prison with the assistance of the local Black community.Abolitionists and Black community members rescued some of these fugitives. -
KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KansasâNebraska_Act' > The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The Democratic Senator allowed people in the terriotries of Kansas and Nebraska.This 1854 bill was made to organize western territories and become part of the political whirlwind of sectionalism and railroad building, splitting two major political parties and helping to create another, as well as worsening North-South relations. -
ELECTION OF 1860
<a href='http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.html ' > By 1860, the divisions in the country had reached a breaking point. In the fall of 1859, Abraham Lincoln received an invitation to lecture at the Brooklyn church of Henry Ward Beecher, a noted abolitionist. In 1860, there was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. They also had to choose their presidential cnadidate. They went to campaign and Abraham Lincoln ventured into the South. -
BATTLE AT FORT SUMTER
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter' >The Battle of Fort Sumter was betwween April 12–14, 1861. Five days later, 68 federal troops stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, withdrew to Fort Sumter, an island in Chrleston Harbor. The commander of the Battle at Fort Sumter was named Major Robert Anderson. Weeks have passed and Abraham Lincoln presuure grew to take some action on Fort Sumter nad to reunite the states. Fort Sumter lies in the center of Charleston Harbor. -
THE MONITOR VS. THE MERIMACK
<a href='http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389515/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack ' >Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads. Monitor and Merrimack, two American warships that fought the first engagement between ironclad ships.At the beginning of the Civil War, the Union forces abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Va., There was a ship called the Merimack Ship. The Monitor is called USS Monitor. -
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THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
<a href='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/' >President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. -
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
<a href='http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg' >The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863.Gettysburg was a small town. -
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SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House' >The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865. Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia, marking a symbolic end to the Civil War.Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia withdrew to the southwest harried by Grant’s forces. The two military leaders agreed to meet under a truce at the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox on the afternoon of April 9.
