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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Who: Henry Clay
Where : Missouri
What: The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to settle the conflicts that arisen from the Missouri's application for statehood.
Why: To balance the equal number of free states and slave state -
Wilmot Proviso
When: 1846
Where: U.S and Mexico
What: This was created to eliminate slavery in the Mexican Cession
Why: To stop further expansion of slaves -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay
Where: California
What: Allowed for one more free state than slave state, but also passed strict fugitive laws.
Why: To settle disputes between free and slave states -
Fugitive Slave Act
Who: Slaves
Where: South
What: This act made it illegal in order to help runaway slave scape and allowed U.S officials to arrest slaves.
Why: To recapture runaway slaves -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Who: Stephan A. Douglas
What: A plan that divided the rest of the Louisiana purchase into two territories(Kansas and Nebraska) which allowed the people in both territories to decide on the question of slavery.
Why: to law settlers there to decide on slavery or not.
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Dred Scott and Sandford
Who: Dred Scott and Sandford
Where: Illinois
What: All all African-Americans (slave or no slave) were not considered you a citizens and therefore could not sue federal court
Why: Because Americans viewed slaves as property without rights or protection under The Constitution. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
When: August 21,1858- October 15, 1858
Who: Abraham Lincom, Stephan A. Douglas
Where: Illinois
What: Lincoln Douglas debate's were a series of formal political debates between the challenger (Lincoln against Stephan A. Douglas
Why: Significance of the debates were to gain recognition allowing him to secure the nomination to run for president. -
Bleeding Kansas
When: 1855-1861
Who: Kansas
Where: Kansas
What: Was a series of violent political confrontations and that the U.S involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery.
Why: When Kansas decided to be a part of the US
