Uncle Tom’s Cabin June 5, 1851  

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_beecher_1.html 

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https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-05/ 

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/ 

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Compromise of 1850- Jan 29, 1850 

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/compromise-of-1850-2/ 

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https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/this-day-in-politics-114700 

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https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Clays_Last_Compromise.htm 

 

Kanas Nebraska Act May 30, 1854 

https://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm#:~:text=The%20Kansas%2DNebraska%20Act%20was,latitude%2036%C2%B030%C2%B4. 

https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/kansas-nebraska-act 

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https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-nebraska-act/15159 

 

Bleeding Kansas 1855-1861 

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas#:~:text=Bleeding%20Kansas%20describes%20the%20period,killed%20between%201855%20and%201859. 

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html 

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https://www.nps.gov/fosc/learn/historyculture/bleeding.htm 

 

Dred Scott Decision March 6, 1857 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/supreme-court-rules-in-dred-scott-case 

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision 

 

https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp 

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Raid at Harper’s Ferry Oct 16-19, 1859 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry 

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-browns-day-of-reckoning-139165084/ 

https://www.nps.gov/articles/john-browns-raid.htm 

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https://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/john_brown_and_the_harpers_ferry_raid.php 

 

Formation of Republican Party March 20, 1854 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded 

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Republican-Party 

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https://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm 

 

Fugitive Slave Act Sept 18, 1850  

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/fugitive-slave-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20September%2018%2C%201850,returning%2C%20and%20trying%20escaped%20slaves. 

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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts 

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https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/fugitive-slave-act-of-1850/ 

 

 Lincoln-Douglass Debates Aug. 21, 1858 

 https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/lincoln-douglas-debates 

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https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debates.htm 

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lincoln-bested-douglas-in-their-famous-debates-7558180/ 

 

Election of 1860 - Nov 6, 1860 

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/election-of-1860 

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https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860 

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https://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/ 

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http://www.tn4me.org/sapage.cfm/sa_id/31/era_id/5/major_id/5/minor_id/1/a_id/2

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South Secedes – Secession Nov 6, 1860. 

https://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp 

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https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/secession 

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/secession 

 

Firing at Fort Sumter April 12-13, 1862 

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-sumter 

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https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter 

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Fort-Sumter 

 

Confederate States of America formed February 1861.  

 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/states-meet-to-form-confederacy 

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https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/confederate-states-of-america 

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https://www.ducksters.com/history/confederation_of_the_united_states.php 

 

Lee Surrenders- Appomattox Court House April 9, 1865 

https://www.ducksters.com/history/robert_e_lee_surrenders.php 

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robert-e-lee-surrenders#:~:text=In%20Appomattox%20Court%20House%2C%20Virginia,ending%20the%20American%20Civil%20War.&text=On%20April%209%2C%20Lee%20sent,announcing%20his%20willingness%20to%20surrender. 

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https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-09/ 

 

Atlanta – Savannah March Nov 15, 1864 

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/shermans-march 

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shermans-March-to-the-Sea 

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https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-march-sea 

 

  

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln April 14, 1865  

 https://www.ducksters.com/history/abraham_lincoln_assassinated.php 

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https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/abraham-lincoln-assassination 

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https://www.fords.org/lincolns-assassination/ 

 

Douglass meets with Lincoln August 1863 

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/frederick-douglass-and-abraham-lincoln 

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https://www.historynet.com/abraham-lincoln-meets-frederick-douglass.htm 

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https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/frederick-douglass-on-abraham-lincoln-and-the-emancipation-proclamation