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A Nation About to Break :)

By tifnicholson

  • Compromise of 1820

    Compromise of 1820
    Congress agreed that slaves were prohibitited in the form Loisana Territory, except Missouri.

  • Issue of Slavery

    Issue of Slavery
    The issue of slavery came up in 1845 when the United States gained territory from Mexico.

  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    He was held in wrongful in slavery.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Many people were unhappy with the compromise.
    California came into the union as a free state.

  • The fugitive Slave Act

    The fugitive Slave Act
    The fugitive slave act caused lots of problems amung the North and the South.

  • Kansas, Nebraska Act

    Kansas, Nebraska Act
    No one knew that Kansas, Nebraska was to be the last straw in dividing the country about the issue of slavery.

  • Know Nothing Party

    Know Nothing Party
    In 1856 there was a thinrd canidate who represented the Know Nothing Party named Millard Fillmore.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Stephen A. Douglas was running against Abraham Lincoln for the Senate seat by the Illinios legislature.

  • John Brown

    John Brown
    In 1859 John Brown attempted in a liberation movement among slaves in Harpers Ferry, Virginia elctrified the nation.