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Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave act was part of the compromise of 1850 that let southern slaveholders capture slaves that escaped into free states.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slave novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act that let the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to have slavery or not.
http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/kansas-nebraska-act-43 -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was the election for the 19th president and it also was the start of the American Civil War.
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Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle at Fort Sumter was a battle where the Confederate States army attacked Fort Sumter.
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The Moniter vs. The Merrimack
The Moniter vs. The Merrimack was history's first battle on Warships.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-hampton-roads -
The Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was also called the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing and it was a major battle in the American Civil War.
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The Emancipation Proclomation
The Emancipation Proclamation was when Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
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The Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment states that slavery can no longer be allowed in the United States. This is the Amendment that ended slavery.
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Surrender at Appotomattox
The Surrender at Appomattox was when Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant and ended the Civil War.
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Assassination of President Lincoln
The Assassination of President Lincoln was when John Wilkes Booth went into the presidential box at Ford's Theatre and killed President Abraham Lincoln.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln_1.html
