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Fugitive Slave Act
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
LInk text Uncle Tom's Cabin is about two people needing to sell slaves in order to clear up one of their debts. The choose two slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Link text The Kansas-Nebraska Act was and act in which the territories within Kansas and Nebraska would get to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery in their borders or not -
Election of 1860
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Battle at Fort Sumter
Link text The Battle at Fort Sumter was when General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on the Union -
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The Battle of Shiloh
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The Emancipation Proclamation
[Link text](http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html The Emancipation Proclamation was only applied to the southern states. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
Link text The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the Civil War involving 85,000 Union soldiers and 75,000 Confederacy soldiers. The Union lost more soldiers than the Confederacy. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
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Surrender at Appomattox
Link text On April 8th Lee had arrived in Appomattox. The Confederacy had been trapped by the Union and had no choice but to surrender. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
[Link text}(http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln.htm) President Lincoln was at Ford's Theater to watch a comedy. At 10 p.m. He was then carried across the street to a family friends house where he later died the next morning.
