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Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave act was a law or act that required every citizen in free states or officials to cooperate in the capture of runaway slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise that allowed white male settlers to determine in popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery in each territory and created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election which also served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Battle at Fort Sumter
The battle at Fort Sumter was the surrender of Fort Sumter that started the Civil War -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
<a href='http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads' >The Monitor vs. The Merrimack</a
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack is also referred to as the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was the most noted and arguably most importants naval battle of the Civil War. -
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle of the American history, it last about two days and produced more than 23,000 casualties. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
The president Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation as the nation was approaching its third year of bloody civil war and declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are and henceforward shall be free" -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg had an estimation of about 51,000 killed, wounded, captured, missing soldiers. On the second invasion of General Robert E. Lee failed and resulted in heavy casualties. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except criminal punishment.On December 18, 1865 the thirteenth amendment was adopted by the secretary of state William H. Sewad. It was one of the first of the three reconstruction amendment adopted following the Civil War. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Surrender at Appomattox
After a long and bloody war General Robert E. Lee realized that there was little but to surrender his army to General Grant. After a few notes they both agreed to meet on April 9, 1865 at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appotmattox, their meeting lasted about two and a half hours until they finally came to an agreement of the bloodies conflict in the nation's history came to its end.
