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Fugitive Slave Act
www.history.comThe Fugitive Slave Act was pair of federal laws. The laws allowed the capture and return of runaway slave within the territory of the United States. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said,"So this is the little lady who made this big war." Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the underground railroad. She later wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. This book had a major influence on the way the American viewed slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was an election for all the democrats that met in Charleston, South Carolina to elect their president for the upcoming election. The Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "Black Republicans" -
Battle at Fort Sumter
General P.G.T Beaugard, in the command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. Around 2:30 p.m. on April 13, 1861 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
The Monitor VS.The Merrimack
The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, during the American Civil war, was history's first duel between ironclad warships. This engagement, known as The Battle of Hampton Roads, was a part of Confederate effort to break the Union blockade of Southern ports. -
The Battle of Shiloh
40,000 confederate soliders under command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of nearby woods and struck a line of Union Soldiers occupying some ground. The overpowering confederate offensive drove the unprepared Federal forces away from their camps and thereatened to overwhelm Uylsses S. Grants entire command. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln handled the Emancipation Proclamation on Januarary 1, 1863 as the nation was starting to approach their third year of the bloody Civil War, The Procalmation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforced shall be free." -
The Battle of Gettys Burg
The Battle of Gettys Burg was fought from July 1,1863 to July 3,1863. This battle was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Nothern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June of 1863. -
Surrender at Ammpomattox
Robert E. Lee with his Army surrounding, there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. After series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865 at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted about 2 and a half hours an the conclusion was the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history neared to the end. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
On April 14,1865 John Wilkes Booth a famous actor, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectivly ending the American Civil War. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth amendment was the Aboition of Slavery. It was passed by congress on Janurary 1,1865 and ratified on December 6, 1865. This amendment provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisidiction."
