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Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Souther slave holding interests ans Northern Free Soldiers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin
was a novel and the author of the book met the president. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignity and proposed by Stephen A. Douglas. -
Election of1860
The Election of 1860
was the 19th quarennial presidential election and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Battle at Fort Sumter
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The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
<a href='http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads' >The Monitor vs. The Marrimack</a
was also called Battle of Hampton Roads was notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of ShilohThe battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and fought in southwestern Tennessee. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
<ahref='http://https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/' >The Emancipation Proclamation</a>
changed the federal legal status in a single stroke, more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free". -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
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Surrender at Appomattox
Surrender at Appomattox
was on April 9, Confederate General rRobert E, Lee surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of Presidente Lincoln
Assassination of President Lincoln
was a hard time, Abraham Lincoln's killer was a Maryland native born in 1838 and remained in the North during the Civil War, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond.