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beechers bible
date: February 8, 1856 description: the beechers biblewas the name given to the breech loading Sharps rifles that were supplied to the anti-slavery immigrants in Kansas. how did it happen: by anit-slavery. -
1850 fugitive slave act
date: 1850 description:The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." how did it happen: because of slaves. -
Abraham lincoln wins election
date: 1860 description: he became president, because he helped the slaves. how did it happen: because they wanted slavery and he didnt. -
bleeding kansas
date: 1854-1861 description: bleeding kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861 how did it happen: they werent sure whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state -
brooks summers incedint
date: August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857 description: he is remembered for slavery beating. how did it happen: he beat slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
date: 1850 description: it was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). how did it happen: texas surrendered its claim to nenw mexico. -
Dred Scott
date: 1795 – September 17, 1858 description: was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision." how did it happen: he sued him. -
Freeport Doctrine
date: August 27, 1858 description: was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates how did it happen: the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery -
john brown's raid on harpers ferry
date: 1859 description: was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia how did it happen: -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
date: 1854 description: created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska how did it happen: some people didnt want farms. -
Lecompton Constitution
date: 1857 description: was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas how did it happen: President James Buchanan's appointee as territorial governor of Kansas -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
date: 1858 descrioption: were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois how did it happen: because of the republicans. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
date: 1856 description: occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas how did it happen: John Brown was particularly affected by the sacking of Lawrence, in which a sheriff-led posse destroyed newspaper offices, private houses and a hotel -
Presidential Election
date: any year... description: a person gets chosen to be a president. how did it happen: they got the most votes. -
Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
date: 1836 description: attack during the U.S. Civil War by Quantrill's Raiders, led by William Clarke Quantrill, on the pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas. how did it happen: attacked during the civil war by quantrills. -
South Carolina Secedes
date: 1860 description: The doctrine of state's rights, the legality of secession, and the institution of black slavery had been issues of debate in the United States for decades before the election of Abraham Lincoln brought on the secession of the Southern states how did it happen: the movements among Southerners toward making good their threat to remove themselves from the United States if he were elected -
Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin”
date: 1852 description: is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe how did it happen: she wrote a story about what happened.
