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Wilmot Proviso
repcrutive david wilmot proposed congress ban slavery is ALL territories that might become part of the U.S as a result of mexican american war the house pass it but the sonate did not pass it still made a lot of people angry. -
Compromise of 1850
was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 also was between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
,Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel about the human cost of slavery in the American South.by 1 April 1852 a second printing of 5,000 had appeared. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters. -
Dred Scott Decision
Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court. The Court also used the decision to strike down the Missouri Compromise. the grounds that he had traveled and lived within the free state of Minnesota. By a vote of seven to two, the Court ruled that black people - either free or enslaved -
Lincln - Douglas Debate "A House Divided Against itself can not stand."
he was permanently part slave part free and I don’t expect the Union to be dissolved or divided but it was against itself. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
the bloody war and was a former slave from Virginia and supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. his effort to start a slave rebellion, and the attack. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President
Republican National Convention nominated Lincoln, a moderate former Congressman from Illinois, as its standard-bearer. Republican National Convention nominated It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
The state was the first to secede from the Union over the right to own slaves, and a modern threat is over the right to own guns.Also convention adopted and One of the founder members of the Confederacy seceded from the United States. -
Confederate States of America are formed
7 states SC,mississippi,alabama,florida,georgia,louisiana, and texas
They had their own constitution
had their own government who was jefferson davis -
The Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander and surrendered the fort and it was the next day. No arms, munitions, or troops would be sent to the garrisons.
