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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri entered as a slave state and maine entered as a free state. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot wanted to stop the spread of slavery to the territories we won from mexico -
Free Soil Party
Made by Northeners who wanted to discuss slavery -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise about states and the laws on slavery -
Fugitive slave law
Required the return of run away slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book showing how slaves were actually treated -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Slavery would be decided by popular sovrenighty -
Pottowatomi Creek Killings
John brown and four of his sons road into road into Pottowatomi Creek Pulled men out of their beds and killed them -
Dred Scott Decision
He was a slave and wanted to be free since his owner died -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown led 5 blacks and 13 whites to attack Harper's Ferry -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected president -
First State to Succede
South Carolina succedes from US -
Rest of the South Sucede
The rest of the 11 southern states sucede from the US -
Form of The Confederate States of America
The southern states make The confederate states of america -
Fort Sumter
Attack on Fort Sumter in which Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire and the Civil War begins