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Fugitive Salve Act
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
The Fugitive Salve Act was a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and the return of runaway salves within the territory of the United States. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Pubished
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published
The novel sold 300,000 copies wtihin three months. Abraham read a cooy and he says "So this is the little lady who made this big war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a 1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignity" is allowing settlers of a terrioty to decide whether slavery would be allowed within the borders. -
Election of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
The votes of the Electrocal College was split among four candidates in 1860 presidental eleciton. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" are henceforward shall be free. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
The Battle at Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surreneder of Fort Sumter. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads
The battle was part of the effort of the Confedarcy. -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
Some of the Federals already made determined stands and by the afternoon they had established a battle line at the suken road -
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
After being cut down by a massive artilltery bombardment in the afternoon, Lee attacked the Union Center. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
They had a meeting and it lasted two and one half hours and its conclusion the bloodliest in the nations history neared its end. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination
Abrahams killer was John Wilkes Booth he was a Maryland native born in 1838. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
"neither salvery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly conveinced.