-
fugitive slave act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_slave_laws
They were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/publication-uncle-toms-cabin
The author had discovered at hand what a slave mother might feel when her child was taken away from her. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. -
Election of 1860
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential, in which Republican Abraham LIncoln defeated Southern Democrat JOhn C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-Merrimack
Notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html
40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of general Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union Soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River. -
Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html
Is arguably one of the top 10 most important documents in the history of the United States; however, it is also one of the most misunderstood. -
The battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html?tab=facts
Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia in its second invasion of the North-the Gettysburg Campaign. -
The thirteenth amendment
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the+thirteenth+amendment&*
Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude. -
Surrender at Appomatox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
on April 3, Richmond fell to Union troops as Robert E. Lee led his army of Northern Virginia in retreat to the West pursued by Grant and the army of the Potomac. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assasination
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2016/04/10-odd-facts-about-abraham-lincolns-assassination/
He got shot while watching a play at Ford's Theater.
