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Compromise of 1850
A package of seperate Bills were passed. Each side had to agree to certain things. Controcersy arose over fugitive slave provision -
Fugitive Slave Law
It stated escaped slaves in the north must be returned to owners in the south. This outraged the northerners because it made them feel like they didnt have a choice but to support slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Publication
This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It sold a lot of copies. It is important because it showed people the brutalities of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Allowed slavery to happen above the Missouri Compromise line. This outraged antislavery veiw holders. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner in Senate
Brooks attacked Sumner in the Senate as the slavery problem intensifies. Due to the Kansas-Missouri Act an its position on the Missouri Compromise -
Birth of the Republican Party
People didn't want slavees to go acoss so they needed a new party -
Dread Scott v. Stanford
This was a case that said that even though Scott had been living on free soil for many years he was still considered a slave. Basically ignored Missouri Compromise. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper Ferry
John Brown leads a raid on a federal armory in HArpers, Virginia. His goal was to start an uprising against slavery to end it. -
Election of 1860
This was the electtion that made Abraham Lincoln president. As a result many southern states seceeded. -
Shots fired at Fort Sumter
Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. That started the Civil War
