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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. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings -
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 north of latitude 36°30´. -
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. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
The battle between Monitor and Merrimack during the American Civil War. -
The Battle of Shiloh
One of the major early engagements of the American Civil War, also known as the battle of Pittsburg Landing. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
All the slaves in the rebillious states were all forever free. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
It is consedred the most important engagement of the civil War. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Confederate General E. Lee surendered his 28,000 troops to the Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
On 1865 the US Constitution Officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.
