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Figurative Slave Act
The figurative slave act was passed by United States Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery. http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860 -
Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel . http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
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The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thirteenth-amendment -
Surrender at Appomattox
he Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who was the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
