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Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise between north slave free and southern slave holding states. This was comtroversial especially because many slaves attempted to escape to the north. This act said that escaped slaves had to be returned. -
Compromise of 1850
Divisions in the American-Mexican War over slavery increased and popular soverignty would determine if there would be slavery in Utah and New Mexico. Also Washington D.C became slave free. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication
Anti-slavery novel by the author Harriet Beecher Stowe who "helped to lay the ground work for the civil war". This booked was influential because it gave americans insight onto the harsh reality of slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This opened new land for settlement and white male settlers voted by popular soverignty. -
Brooks attacks Sumner in Senate
Pro-slavery Brooks attacked anti-slavery Senator Sumner on the floor of the senate. The violence of the attack foreshadowed a civil war to come. -
Birth of the Republican Party
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it was decided that the parties first nominating convention would be the republican party. Many southern states followed this party after it was created. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The supreme court decision that free or slaved, african americans could not be American citizens and didnt have the right to sue in federeal court. -
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
Brown and his men captured citizens and seized the federal arsenal and armory. The weapons would be supplied to slaves for the fight for freedom. John Brown was caught and excecuted. -
Election of 1860
Served immediately as at the outbreak of the American Civil War.Abraham Lincoln won with almost no support from the south. -
Shots fired at Fort Sumter, SC
South Carolina demanded that the US army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. Seven southern states succeded and this was first site where the shots which began the Civil War were.
