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Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel -
Compromise of 1850
5 separate bills passed in the United States -
Fugitive Slave Law
An act passed by the United States Congress -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication
It was an anti-slavery novel created by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Birth of the Republican Party
10,000 people turned out for a mass meeting -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opening new lands for settlement -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The United States Supreme Court decided that the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories -
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
It was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States -
First Shots fired at Fort Sumter, SC
Confederate forces opened fire on the Union
