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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act is a law part of the Compromise of 1850. It provided Southern slaveholders with weapons to catch the slaves that had escaped to the free states.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slave novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act is an act that states that the people in Kansas and Nebraska territories have the choice to allow slavery or not within their borders.
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Election of 1860
The election of 1860 is when Abraham Lincoln won the election.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter is the battle where, shots fired were by the Confederate States Army. the return gunfire and subeequent surrender by the U.S Army started the Civil War.
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The Monitor vs The Merrimack
The Monitor vs The Merrimack was a naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Its history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era in naval warfare.
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Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh is an early major engagements in the civil war. It had begun with the confederates preformed a surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant. they both suffered major consequences.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is a presidential proclamation that freed about 4 million slaves. It was issued by president Lincoln.
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was issued by General Robert E. Lee. Lee had fewer than 1.500 troops to fight with at the Cemetery Ridge. He was forced to withdraw his army away on July 4th.
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Surrender of Appomattox
Lee had struck back again sending about 2,800 troops to Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox Court House. Union forces cut off his final retreat and the war was ended.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in the Ford's Theatre in the middle of a play. Only five days after Lee surrendered at the Appomattox. He was shot in the back of the head and taken over to a house across the street. Luckily there was a doctor in the Theatre but unfortunately could not save him.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment is known as the Black History amendment. The amendment abolished all slavery in America. It took a while to get ratified because it had first failed in the U. S. House of Representatives. But was later sent back and passed.
[http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thirteenth-amendment]
