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Compromise of 1850
There were 5 bills to keep north and south balanced.
1.California was entered as a free state
2.New Mexico and Utah were allowed to pick if they were free or not
3.Republic of Texas gave up land for 10 million (New Mexico)
4.slave trade was abloished in district of Columbia
5.The Fugitive Slave Act made any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine -
Publication of uncle tom's Cabin
An american liturature. Written by a women living in the time of slavery. through a womens point of view -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.They didn't want Kansas to be free. -
Bleeding Kansas
Border war for free states and slave states. Took place in kansas and part of mossouri. -
brooks/sumner affair
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered a two-day speech named The Crime Against Kansas. descibed what happened in the south. -
Dred scott decision
court case of a slave dred scott v. sanford. scott lived in a free state before he moved to mossouri. -
John Brown's raid
Also known as Harpers ferry, He and his men went into town raiding and giving weapons to slave to start a raid and end slavery. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won that election And it led to the sessesion.
