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Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave law or fugitive slave act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18,1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern free-soilers.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
In early 1851, when Harriet Beecher Stowe first imagined writing "some sketches which should show the world slavery as she herself had seen it," she was already an established author. She had been writing and publishing domestic sketches and stories for many years, since 1834, and a small collection of these had been published as THE MAYFLOWER in 1843 over the imprint of Harper and Brothers.
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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.
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Election of 1860
U.S. presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov.6,1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
When South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20,1860, United Sates Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were positioned at Fort Moulton near the mouth of Charleston Harbor. On December 26, fearing for the safety of his men, Anderson moved his command to Fort Sumter, and imposing fortification in the middle of the harbor. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?tab=facts -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The next day, the USS Monitor steamed into the Chesapeake Bay.The design of the USS Monitor was so innovative, that when it was launched the ship featured more than 40 different newly patented inventions.
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The Battle of Shiloh
On the morning of April 6,1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson poured out of the nearby woods and struck a lien of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River. The overpowering Confederate offensive drove the unprepared Federal forces from their camps and threatened to overwhelm Ulysses S. Grant's entire command.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure intended to cripple the Confederacy. Being careful to respect the limits of his authority.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The first steps toward the battle of Gettysburg started in June 1863. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's soldiers crossed the Potomac River in Virginia and began to march toward the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
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Surrender at Appomattox
Approximately 9,000 men under Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee deployed in the fields west of the village before dawn and waited. The attack, launched before 8:00 a.m. and led by General Bryan Grimes of North Carolina, was initially successful. The outnumbered Union infantry began arriving from the west and south, completing Lee's encirclement.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
On April 14,1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate (which was dominated by Republicans) on April 8, 1864. However, the amendment died in the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats rallied in the name of states’ rights. The amendment states: "Neither slavery not involuntary serbitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convited, shall exist within the U.S., or any place subject."
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thirteenth-amendment
