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Unit 5
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Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts The Fugitive Slave Act declared that all runaway slaves should be returned to their owners. It was made to keep the north and south in balance. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that let the people decide if they let slavery in there new state bourders. -
Election of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp The Election of 1860 was the election that Abraham Lincoln won with 40% of the vote. He won over the 4 most important states that were udecided before he came. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
http://www.google.com/search?q=battle+at+fort+sumter&oq=battle+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j0l4.3656j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=ssl The Battle at Fort Sumter was the battle that started the civil war. -
Monitor vs Merrimack
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1035978/edit This was the first battle between ironclad warships -
Battle of Shiloh
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-shiloh The battle of Shiloh was a suprise attack by the confederacy and the Union still won but 23,000 men died. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation Abraham Lincoln mad a proclamation that "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever be free". -
Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg The battle of Gettysburg was the most important battle of the civil war. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/appomattox-court-house Cofederate Genral Robert E. Lee surrendered to Usslyes S. Grant and effectivly ending the war. -
The Thirteeth Amendment
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thirteenth-amendment The thirteenth amendment compleatly abolished slavory.