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Fugitive Slave Act
The figurative slave act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." The antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state. This event played a role in the building of the Underground railroad which helped escaping slaves travel from different places. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c7WV9HbI9wpE0WkwqOS5WroNfXPvKDql3ayjUirCeYg/edit -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
The novel sold 300,000 copies within the time span of three months. Stowe was born in 1811, she studied at private schools in Connecticut. She published her first book Mayflower in 1843. Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. Later after that she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, pro-slavery, and anti-slavery supporters rushed in to settle Kansas to affect the outcome of the first election held there. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln had defeated Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. He defeated all three of those people who were running for president. He did make quite a few enemy's in the process but the majority liked him more than they disliked him. https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860 -
Battle at Fort Sumter
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, open fired on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack was also called the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was during the Civil War. Was history's first duel between ironclad warships. It was part of a Confederate effort to break the Union blockade of Southern ports. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-hampton-roads -
The Battle of Shiloh
Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of the Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River. The battle was known as the bloodiest war in American history at its time. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html -
The Emancipation Proclomation
Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation twice. It was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln. It purported to change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the south from slave to free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation -
The Battle of Gettysburg
It is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June. Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy's center at Cemetery Ridge. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg -
Surrender at Appomattox
Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. Richmond had 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 Potomac. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm -
Assasination of President Lincoln
Abraham was about to ban slavery when he died from a shot to the back of the head. John Wilkes Booth was the man who had committed this crime. Abraham was at Ford Theatre when he was shot right next to his wife. http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth Amendment states 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." https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
