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The Civil War
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compromise of 1850
A law that started in September of 1850. It made most of what clay had wanted happen. Califorina entered as a free state.
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Fugitive slave
The Fugitive Slave Act is an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. Many Southerns backed this law, because they considered slaves to be property. However the one part of the law that outraged Northeners was that they have to help recapture the runaway slaves. Picture of: a sign that was posted to warn slaves that they could be captured -
Uncle Toms
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed slavery as brutal and immoral. This novel presented the cruelty and immorality of slavery. The novel describes a slave named Eliza and her baby's escape across the Ohio River. -
Kansas Nebraska
The Kansas - Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty, meaning the territories could decide by popular vote if slavery should be allowed or not. No other law did as much to divide the whigs as well as the Northern Democrats, who eventually joined together to form a Republican party -
John Browns Raid
Northerner John Brown's plan to start a slave revolt failed, but Southerner's fears that the north was trying to arm slaves was confirmed. The south now believed that they could not live safely in the union. -
Election of 1860
The southern democrats who supported slavery had Beckinridge as their candidate, and Lincoln, the anti-slavery Northern abolitionist, ran against him. Lincold won the presidency, and this made southern fears come true. The Federal Government was mostly controled by men who wanted to end slavery.
