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Missouri Compromise
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831 -
Compromise of 1850
a series of measures proposed by U.S. Senator Henry Clay and passed by the U.S. Congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the Union -
Fugitive Slave Act
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state which took away power from the free states -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S -
Brooks attacks Sumner
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on Thursday, May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas Nebraska Act -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate -
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th -
Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859 -
Fort Sumter is attacked
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. -
Jefferson Davis becomes President of Confederacy
Jefferson Davis had been elected president of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy