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The Missouri Compromise
agreement proposed in 1819 by henry clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal. -
Formation of Free-Soil Party
bipartisan antislavery party founded in the U.S. in -
Compromise of 1850
agreement over slavery by which californa joined the union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passes. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
an 1852 novel by harriet beecher stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the fugitive slave act -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
an 1854 law that established the territories of nebraska and kansas giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery. -
Formation of Republican Party
a group of free-soilers northern democrat and antislavery whigs gathered in michigan in 1854 there they fromed the repudlican party. -
Bleeding Kansas
by late 1856 more than 200 people had been killed newpapers started calling the territory bleeding kansas -
John Brown’s Raid
brown rode with his four sons and two other men to the town of pottawtomie creek in the middle of the night they dragged five proslavery settlers from their beds and murdered them. -
Election of 1860
to many southerners lincoln election meant that the south no longer had a voice in national government.