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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852. Harriet Beecher was a teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and was a dedicated abolitionist. Harriet Beecher Stowe was once greeted by Abraham Lincoln as the "Little lady who started a war." -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated southern democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell -
Battle at fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months.
