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Fugitive slave act
This event was caused by how slaves have been running away. One solution was to forbid them from their owner ever getting them back. It was for how they all begged or they said that they "die rather than be taken back into slavery". so in 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act took place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850 -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is an anti-slavery novel. It was published in people say that the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Which it was helpful to the main purpose of the civil war. This was also by author Harriet Beecher Stowe. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=Uncle+Tom%E2%80%99s+Cabin+Published&* -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska act lead the remaining territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. But tje most important result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was its language concerning the contentious issue of slavery. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=kansas+nebraska+act+summary&* -
Election of 1860
This is the nineteenth quadrennial Presidential Election award when the United States where surrounded and had been effected by the slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860 -
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Battle at Fort Sumter
The return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=Battle+at+Fort+Sumter&* -
The Monitors vs. The Merrimack
The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack is also called The Battle of Hampton Roads. This battle is also important because it was history's first duel between "ironclad" warships and the beginning ht e new "era" of naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
this even took place in Tennessee in the country. they say that this battle was one of the most bloody one. the western theater and the Union victory gave Tennessee to the North. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=why+was+the+battle+of+shiloh+fought&* -
The Emancipation Proclamation
in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It sets a date for the fredom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=The+Emancipation+Proclamation&* -
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The Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was a Union victory that stopped General Roberts second invasion of the North.it was also a 3 day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Battle+of+Gettysburg&oq=The+Battle+of+Gettysburg&aqs=chrome..69i57.2583j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=why+was+the+battle+of+gettysburg+important&* -
The thirteenth amendment
The thirteenth amendment states that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". It was official on January 31, 1865 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Why+was+the+13th+Amendment+added+to+the+Constitution?&* -
assassination of president lincoln
the first person to assassinate an American president wasJohn Wilkes Boothwhen he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=Assassination+of+President+Lincoln&* -
Surrender at Appomattox
This event took place at Appomattox. this battle apart of the civil war. It also was the last battle of the american civil war. General Robert E. Lee also surrendered his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=what+was+the+surrender+at+appomattox&*
