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Compromise of 1850
was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North -
fugitive slave act
declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters -
Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin”
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852 -
Kansas–Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromis -
beechers bible
preacher who believed they in moving south to convince anit slavery immigrants to move to kansas -
Brooks-Sumner Incident
He is primarily remembered for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner (Free Soil-Massachusetts), an abolitionist, with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas -
Dred Scott
was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857 -
Lecompton Constitution
the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, -
Freeport Doctrine
Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford -
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859 -
Abraham Lincoln wins election
The central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy -
Bleeding Kansas
was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas Territory -
Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
also known as Quantrill's Raid, was a rebel guerrilla attack during the U.S. Civil War by Quantrill's Raiders, led by William Clarke Quantrill, on the pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas.
