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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in the mexican cession territory out west excluding Texas -
compromise of 1850
The only way to keep the peace was to have equal balance in free and slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Law passed to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.People stoped helping runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Bleeding kanas
proslavery and abolishionist faught each other with guns and swords. -
Kanas Nebraska Act
People could decide for themselves wheather their slaves would allow slavery. -
Dred scott
A slave who sued for his freedom.He lost but that didnt stop him he later on won his freedom but two laters he died. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
Lincoln and douglas were running aganist each other -
Harper's Ferry
John brown stole guns and freed slaves -
Election of 1860
Lincoln became president .He won the election -
Fort sumter
Linclons men were trapped in forts and they wouldn't let them get out