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Wilmot Proviso
United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
Five bills passed by the United States Congress that stopped a political confrontation between slave and free states. -
Dred Scott Decision
He wanted to get away from slavery. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
Novel about what slavery is -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to have the desion whether or not to allow slavery. -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek
Murder of 5 men from the settlement on Pottawatomie Creek. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate "A House Divided Against itself can not stand."
Lincoln and Douglas where running to get spot as senate. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Was about a war in the south to help or see slave. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President
Republican National Convention nominated Lincoln as president in 1860. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
voted to declare secession from the United States. -
Confederate States of America are formed
Where slavery plantations formed the Confederate States. -
Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Had guns and fired on fort summer. -
Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Had guns and fired on fort summer.