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fugitive slave act
The fugitive slave act was passed by the United States as a part of the compromise of 1850 between southern slave-holding interests. This act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise the northern fears of a " slave power conspiracy."
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
This novel first appeared in the weekly installments between June 1851 and April 1852 in the Nation Era, a Washington DC periodical. They sold more than 300,000 copies in the first year.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was between a Republican Abraham Lincoln and a Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. Abraham Lincoln defeated John C, Breckinridge.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
The battle of fort Sumter was the war near Charleston, south Carolina by the confederate states army. The subsequent surrender by the united states army that started the american civil war.
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The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack during the American Civil war. It was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships.
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The battle of Shiloh
40,000 confederate soldiers went out into the nearby woods ans struck a line of union soldiers. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston was the one that was leading the confederate soldiers. Two day battle at Shiloh was the bloodiest battle in American history at its time.
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The Emancipation Proclamoation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln. To change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the south form " slave" to "free".
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment declared that " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted..."
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Surrender at Apponattox
9,000 men under Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee deployed west. The attack, began before 8:00 a.m.. The outnumbered Union cavalry fell beck, opening the road.The Union infantry began arriving from west and south just like Lee wanted.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on good Friday. Lincoln was attending a play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
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The battle of Gettysburg
Around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg
