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Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts The Fugitive Slave Act is that the Northerners that the the South caught that the South couldn't use them as slaves. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_CabinUncle Tom's Cabin is a novel that was about anti-slavery and helped ground work in the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-actThis was an act that told people in Kansas and Nebraska that they could choose what side they wanted to support. -
Election of 1860
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.aspThis is the 19th election that was the election that Abraham Lincoln was elected president and was the outbreak of the Civil War. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/This battle was still going till April 14, 1861 was the start of the Civil war. -
The Monitor vs. The Merrimack
http://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Monitor-and-MerrimackThis was a naval engagement and first duel against the ironclad and naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh.htmlThis battle lasted till April 7, 1862 it was in the western theater of the Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/The Emancipation Proclamation was the law that says that all colored people will not be slaves. -
The Battle of Gettysburg.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/gettysburg.htmlThis battle lasted till July 3rd, 1863 and was fought around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -
The Thirteenth Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.htmlThis was amendment that said that people could not have slaves anymore and if they did they had to let them go. -
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htmThis is the battle that was fought in the morning. That is when General Robert E. Lee surrendered. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassinationPresident was our 16th president that served from March 1861 to April 1865. April 15, 1865 was the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.