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Fugitive Slave Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
The Fugitive Act is an act to amend and a supplement entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," and it is was approved on February 12, 1793. The act was a controversial element, heightened in the Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy as it required all escaped slaves to be captured and returned to their "masters" to the "free states" to cooperate the law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery novel by the American author Harriet Beecher Stowe the novel who "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." This novel is about a long suffering black slave around who he is in the stories of other characters that were revolved and was a depict reality of slavery while is was asserting to the Christian love of the overcome something as a destructive and enslavement of a fellow human being. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a pass by the U.S. Congress that allowed the people in the territories decide whether they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. -
Election of 1860
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860 The Election of 1860 was a defeated Southern Democrat and the electoral act split between within the Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the serve sectional split. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter This event was the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The United States Army started the American Civil War following the declarations the secession by 7 Southern states. -
The Monitor vs. Merrimack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads The Monitor vs. Merrimack was the most note and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of development of the navies and i was fought over for 2 days. -
The Battle of Shiloh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh This battle was major in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The first day of battle, Confederates struck with the intention of driving union defenders away to the west. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html This document was probably one of the most important documents in the history here in the United States and is also the most misunderstood. Its the nations approached third year of bloody civil war and it declares that all persons held slaves are henceforward shall be free. -
Battle of Gettysburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg This battle was the largest battle of the American Civil War and involved largest numbers fought in North America. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html The thirteenth amendment says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This amendment abolishes slavery and was passed through Congress. -
Surrender of Appomattox
http://www.historynet.com/appomattox-court-house-battle This was the final battle of the Army of Northern Virginia at the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. The desperate final attempt to escape, Lee's army was trapped and they surrendered with his remaining troops to General Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln While this event our 16th president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln was so close to drawing the American Civil War as well.
