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What's a Timeline of American history from 1850 to 1930?

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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

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