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Pro & Anti Slave Literature
Boosted the message of pro-slave and anti-slave ideas. Two examples are Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Propaganda. -
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Underground Railroad
Guided approximately 100,000 slaves to freedom. -
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Mexican-American War
U.S.A. gained Texas as a slave state. -
Compromise of 1850
California joined the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico could choose -
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Fugitive Slave Law
Required slaves to be returned to their en-slavers, even if in a free state. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Immigrants flooded Kansas to effect vote by either force or voting, Kansas did end up a free-state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Lead to Bleeding Kansas and NE and KS becoming free-states. -
Republican Party Establishment
Formed a powerful anti-slavery political party. -
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford
This Supreme Court landmark court decision ruled that slaves where not citizens of the U.S.A. and could not sue. -
Sumner-Brooks Incedent
Sumner, an antislavery politician, was beaten hard after a speech. After three years of recovery, he returned as a powerful proponent of equal rights. -
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Panic of 1857
Northern states where weakened; by association, Southern slave states where lightly hit but gained some advantage. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln and Douglass were both running for Senate in IL. Douglass won; however, this boosted Lincoln’s career and somewhat dimmed Douglas’s career. (August - October) -
Lecompton Constitution
This was a proposed constitution for Kansas that supported slavery and added to friction leading to the Civil War. -
John Brown's Raid
Brown strongly added friction to the slave issue through his intense actions of activism. (October 16-18 1859) -
Election of 1860
Lincoln, a Republican anti-slavery proponent, won the election of 1860; as a result, the Southern states decided to secede from the nation.