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Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was to deterime which sttes would be allowed to have slavery and those who wouldd be free.
The Missorui Compromise was made to keep peace abot slavery in the Louisiana Territory. One Free Starte: Maine
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso outlawed slavery in any land gained from the war against Mexico It made sure the Southern States didn't expand slavery even more. It never became a law. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 made Califonia a free state It was made to sette disagreements between free and slave states. Congress wad divided over the issue -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that let southener hunt down saves that escaped to the north. It was made because there was a compromise that made California a free state. The act was strongly critized in Harriet Stowe's book" Uncle Tom's Cabin." -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave Kansas and Nebraska citiizens to choose if they wanted slavery or not. The reason they made this act was because there were expanding slavery west. Bleeding Kansas was started because of it. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a war for freedom for slaves. Bleeding Kansas started because Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act -
Lincoln- Douglas Debate
A speech to try and get voters to vote for them. They had the debate to decuse the issues that were happening. Douglas felt that we should have slavery. -
Dred Scott V Sandford
A slave sued for his freedom. It went to supreme court.
He lost. He wanted to be free.
