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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri entered as a slave state. Maine entered as a free state. The 36’ 30’’ line is drawn. This line was supposed to decide whether slavery would be allowed in certain territories or not. The Missouri Compromise ended in around 1850. -
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Causes of the Civil War
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Compromise of 1850
California enters as a free state. Area from Mexican Cession divided into Utah and New Mexico. Slavery issue to be decided by Popular Sovereignty . Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
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Fugitive Slave Law
It was a law that required citizens to catch runaway slaves. If a person did not comply, they could be fined up to $1000 or put in jail for six months. Many blacks who were free were captured and sent back into slavery. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was written to show the evils of slavery. While it changed the Northerners own view of slavery, Southerners claimed it was full of lies -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Divided lands into Kansas and Nebraska Territories and decided that the slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereignty, which led to violence in the Senate. Northerners believed this repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Pottowatomi Creek Killings
John Brown and his four sons kill five slaves and John Brown believed he was doing what "GOD has told him to do." John Brown's actions appalled Northerners. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, who lived as a slave in a free territory with his owner, was ruled as property, not as a citizen, by the Supreme Court. The Court then ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in any of the territories which was loved by Southerners but hated by Northerners. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.The debate Lincoln an Douglas agreed on were seven of the nine Illinois Congressional Districts; the seven where Douglas had not already spoken. In each debate either Douglas or Lincoln would open with an hour address. The other would then speak for an hour and a half. The first then had 30 minutes of rebuttal. In the seven debates, Douglas, as the incumbent, was allowed to go first four times. -
Raid On Harper's Ferry
John Brown lead a group on a raid against a federal armory in Harper's Ferry, to start an armed revolt of enslaved people to destroy the institution of slavery. As Brown publicly announced his dedication to destroying the institution of slavery he was already ahead of him self when he started formulating his plan to incite an insurrection a few years earlier in 1848. in 1858, Brown returned to the East and raised money to carry out his vision of a mass uprising of enslaved people -
Election of 1860
The most important presidential election in the world. They selected their candidate for president. Lincoln was considered a symbol of the frontier, hard work, the self-made man and the American dream which resulted in him receiving 40% of the popular vote and 180 electoral votes which is enough to actually win the election and the other 60% of the voters selected someone other than Lincoln. Those other votes didn't really make a difference being that their were 4 candidates in the field.
