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Compromise of 1850
-Description: It was proposed by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas, which included four separate bills, instead of one single bill, stating that California is admitted as a free state, popular sovereignty is utilized in the rest of the Mexican territory, slave trade is ended in Washington D.C., and a stricter fugitive slave law.
-Significance: Each bill was able to individually solve a single problem with majority vote without having to focus on another issue at the same time.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
-Description: Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and is about contradicting slavery, the slave trade and business, daily life in the slave world, and how they struggled for freedom.
-Significance: It magnified slavery and its standards while intensifying the issue to the forefront. The book showed the ill effects of slavery and allowed someone to engulf the harsh world of a slave, especially in how horrible they were treated.
-Causes: The author could show her abolitionist feelings
-Effects: It so -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Description: The act was created and passed by Stephen Douglas over the two disputed territories.
-Significance: Fostered the emergence of popular sovereignty.
-Causes: They were disputed territories, they disagreed with the Missouri Compromise, slave states wanted to expand to western territory, and the areas needed to become states for the transcontinental railroad to be established.
-Effects: A small civil war broke out and opened new lands without the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
-Description: A minor violent event that was lead by John Brown and other abolitionists that took place in Kansas.
-Significance: Clearly showed the widening gap between the North and the South in terms of slavery and made the North look more defensive and aggressive towards the South.
-Causes: The Kansas-Nebraska act declaring whether the territory would become a free or slave state.
-Effects: Kansas was unable to become a free state until after the Civil War and after the South seceded. -
Election of 1860
-Description: The election was between Abraham Lincoln in the north (Republican) and John Bell in the south (Democrat). Two other candidates were competing in the south.
-Significance: It marked the transition from complete southern victories for political power and presidency to an individual in the north being chosen to take office.
-Causes: The term was ending for the previous presidency and the north needed a candidate that wasn’t a complete radical or took a strong position in abolitionism.
