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Fugitive Slave Act
Click here for more information During the Fugitive Slave Act, which forced Northern law enforcement officers to aid in the recapture of runaways, and more than ten thousand fugitive slaves were flooded -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Click here for more information The Kansas-Nebraska Act may have been the single most significant act leading us to the Civil War. In the early 1850s settlers and others wanted to move into the area known as Nebraska. However, they couldn't move there until the area was organized as a territory because it couldn't legally be claimed. Then there were some issues between the north and the south so Kansas and Nebraska opened fresh wounds. -
Election of 1860
Click here for more information The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the election that was coming up. Northern people thought that Stephen Douglas would make a good vice president but others didn't want to because they considered him as a traitor and because of his support of popular sovereignty. Six weeks later, the democrats chose Douglas. -
Battle at Fort Sumter (Civil War Begins)
Click here for more information When South Carolina went from the Union on December 20, 1860, United States Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were set at Fort Moultrie near the mouth of Charleston Harbor. Then On Thursday, April 11, 1861, Confederate Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard dispatched aides to Maj. Anderson to demand the fort’s surrender. Anderson refused, and that's when the Civil War began! -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
Click here for more informationThe Battle of Monitor vs. The Merrimack also called Battle of Hampton Roads. In the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history’s first arguments between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
Click here for more information The Battle of Shiloh was in Southern Tennessee near a church named Shiloh, which is Hebrew for 'place of peace'. Shiloh was in many ways the first truly and terrible and great battle of the Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Click here for more informationThe Proclamation declared all people held as slaves in the rebelious states are free. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
Click here for more information The Battle of Gettysburg was the battle of the turning point of the United States in the Civil War. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Click here for more information The troops decided to meet up on April 9, 1865 to come up with some sort of agreement but it ended up being the nation's bloodiest battle in history. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
Click here for more informationThe 13th Amendment states that no one shall be held slave in the United States or then they will receive a punishment even death could be a possibility.
