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Missouri Compromise
A fight between the North and the South about which states would be a slave state. -
Free- soil party
.U.S political party that opposed the extension into the western territories. -
Harriet Tubman the Underground Railroad
African American woman that helped over thousands of slaves travel and escaped from slavery to freedom. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
any free or run away slaves had to get brought back to their masters and the person that bring them back get money rewards. -
The Compromise
Many billes were passed, confrontation was solved againest the northern free states and southern slave state -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book about reality of slavery and generally regarded as one of the major cause of the Civil War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Issues of slavery would be decided by the resident of each territory (popular soveneighty) -
Bleeding Kansas
Violence over territory about if it would be free or slave state. (thousands of pro-tanti slavery supporters) -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dreed Scott was a slave that claim to be a citizen of Missouri and obtained freedom by domicile from long perion in a free state. Sandford was his owner that told he still is a slave and he will never be a free man -
The Election
Lincoln won the Republican Party nominationand got elected president later that year. -
The begining of the Civil War
Abolishing the institution of slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as a single, indivisible nation rather than a loosely bound collection of independent states.
