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compromise of 1850
Henry Clay takes the floor of old senate chamber. Henry Clay ave a speech which called for a compromise on issues dividing the union. The results were that the U.S. became divided even further between slave and free states. California came into the Union as a free state and negated Texas as a slave state since there was an imbalance. The territories were to remain free. District of Columbia became free, but the Fugitive Slave Laws were strengthened. -
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Causes of Civil War
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uncle Tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852 it was one of the main causes of the civil war becuase it showed the evilness of slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both territories. After months of debate, the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed on May 30, 1854. It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
Drd Scott v. sandford
Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to cause a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves and move south along the Appalachian Mountains. His plan was doomed from the very beginning.The slaves did not rise to his support, militia surrounded him killing two townspeople and eight of Brown's company. Brown was later caught and hung. -
Election of 1860
With four candidates in the field, Lincoln received only 40% of the popular vote and 180 electoral votes, enough to narrowly win the crowded election. This meant that 60% of the voters selected someone other than Lincoln. A few weeks after the election, South Carolina seceded from the Union.
