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The Missouri Act
This was an act that made an even number of pro-slavery states and anti-slavery states. -
Samuel F.B Morse invents the telegraph
This was a device that let people send messages by using wires and codes. They were strung over railroad tracks, this was an advantage the North had over the South. -
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Separation of the Nation
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The Great Compromise of 1850
Five things happened in this compromise.
1 California would become a free state.
2 New Mexico and Utah would decide their own fate regauarding slavery.
3 Congress would get rid of the sale of enslaved indivuals in Washington DC.
4 Slavery would remain legal in Washington DC
5 Implemeting a Fugitive Slave Law, in which all the people in the US have to assist in the recovery of escaped slaves from their owners; and denying jury trials to escaped slaves. -
Franklin Pierce becomes president.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
This was a book about a female slaves life during the Pre-Civil war era. This book had a very big impact on the nation. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was letting states decide their own fate of slavery. -
Cannibals All! Was published
This was a book that was the opposite of Unlce Toms Cabin. The author reffered to Northern industrialists as no better than cannibals. -
The Civil War Begins.
The civil war was the war between the North and South...
