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Fugitive Slave Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed on September. It was passed by the United States Congress. It was passed as part of Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel about anti-slavery by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. This novel helped popularize a number a stereotypes about black people. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S Congress in 1845 on May 30. This allowed people in the territories of Nebraska and Kansas to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. -
Election of 1860
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860
The United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on November 6, 1860, which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
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 Untied States Army that started the American Civil War. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-hampton-roads
March 9, 1862 was the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack during the American Civil War was history's first duel between ironclad warships. -
The Battle of Shiloh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater of American Civil War, fought April 6-7, 1862. On April 6, the first day of the battle, the Confederate struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1 1863. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg
This battle was fought July 1-3, 1863, in around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle invovled the larges number of casualties of the entire war. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither Slavery nor involuntary Servitude. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
With his army surrounded. his men weak and exhausted, Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrounded of his Army to General Grant. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html
Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865 actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
