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SEP 18, 1850
Fugitive Slave law passed by the U.S. Congress
JUN 5, 1851
Harriet Stowe "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in a newspaper
Harriet Stowe wrote the book to tell people how horrible slavery really was. The book inspired many people to fight against slavery.
MAR 1, 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published as a book
In March 1852, a Boston publisher decided to issue Uncle Tom's Cabin as a book and it became an instant best seller. Three hundred thousand copies were sold in the first year, and about two million copies were sold worldwide by 1857. For a three-month period, Stowe reportedly received $10,000 in royalties. Across the nation, people discussed the novel and its narrative—slavery.
MAR 6, 1857
U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dredd Scott decision
The court affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories, negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
NOV 6, 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
DEC 20, 1860
South Carolina is the 1rst State to sucede The Union
11 southern states succeeded to The Union from 1860-1861 and became the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.
APR 12, 1861
Civil War begins
The first battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Sumter when Confederate troops fired on the Union.
NOV 1, 1861
McClellan becomes general in chief of all Union armies
FEB 20, 1862
President Lincoln's son Willie dies from typhoid fever
JAN 1, 1863
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
FEB 9, 1863
Red Cross was founded
JUN 24, 1863
President Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address on Cemetary Hill
NOV 19, 1863
The Battle at Gettysburg
APR 14, 1865
President Lincoln is assassinated
APR 15, 1865
President Lincoln dies
DEC 6, 1865
13th Amemdment to the Constitution
JUL 9, 1868
14th Amendment passed for the Constitution
FEB 3, 1870
15th Amendment passed to the Constitution