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Louisianna Purchase
Congress tried to expand slavery into the NEW western territory -
Slave Tade ban
Congress passed a law saying Americans can't participate in African slave trade -
New York Emancipation
New York passed a law freeing all black on July 4,1827 that weren't freed by the emancipation act in 1799 -
Missouri Compromise
Tried to seperate evenly between slave startes and free states in the United States. -
Compromise of 1850
Helped stop slavery from expanding but strengthening the fugitive slave act -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowes book the second best selling book in teh world behind the Bible. The book epended the eyes of a lot of people and exposed the real cruelty of slavery. -
Kanasas-Nebraska Act
Established popular sovereignty regarding slavery. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
A virginia slave that tried to sue for his freedom that went all the way to the supreme court where the justices found that since he was a slave he was property and didnt the the right to sue. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown was a abolotionist that planned to help end slaevery by raiding the governments arsenal and taking all the weapons the distributing them to slaves to rebel. -
Abraham Lincolns Election
Southenerns feared because of Lincolns political party and outlook on slavery, they thought he was going to try and end slavery even though he wasn't.