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the compromise of 1850
a compromise that allowed the states to make the choice if they want to be a free state or a slave state and thia compromise also brought california into the us as a free state. -
fugitive state law
it was made a law that all citizens were to return any runaway slaves and if they helped the slaves they would be fined and put in jail. -
uncle toms cabin
a book that was written about slavery. It made a difference on how people in the north sae slavery. -
bleeding kansas
kansas and nebraska had to decide using popular sovereignty if they would become free or slave it caused fights between pro-slavery and anti- slavery people. -
charles aumner is attacked by preston brooks
lawrence, kansas(non-slavery area) was attacked by pro- slavery people. Then the next day charles sumner was giving a speech that was about pr0-slavery people so preston brooks beat charles sumner with a cane. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
one of the fights was a reaction the the fight in lawrence kansas and it was also part of bleeding kansas. -
dred scott decision
dred scott lost a court case trying to prove that he should be free because he was a slave in a free state, he lost because the court thought that even though he was a slave he was taken to the free stateby his owner and he was his owners property. -
john brown raided harpers ferry
john brown led a group including black men to virgina, he tried to start a slave uprising after brown and his group of people were captured and some killed by Colonel Robert E. Lees troops. Then john brown was hanged for treason. -
Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President
abraham lincoln thought that the south was getting to powerful so he said that any new states were to be free states. -
south caralina tries to secede from the union
after abraham lincoln becomes president south caralina tries to not be part of the us anymore.