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Compromise of 1850
It was the resolution to a dispute over slavery in territory gained after the Mexican-American War.Henry clay daves the day -
Fugitive slave act
Law passed to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. No right to trial by jury -
Uncle toms cabin
Book about slavery. North gets mad and becomes abolitionist -
Bleeding Kansas
The opening of the Kansas and Nebraska territories left the principle of popular sovereignty provoked and made a political crisis in both Kansas and the nation at large. -
Nebraska act
Allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote for themselves whether they wanted to allow slavery or not -
Dred scott court case
Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. -
Lincoln and Douglas debate18
Linchon and Douglas were running for senator of Illinois. Lincoln lost the election but becomes famous -
Raid on Harpers ferry
Stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery. It did not work. -
Election of 1860
north voted for Lincoln. Sectionism -
Fort Sumter
South opened fire and the union had to surrender. We had supplies