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Missouri Compromise
Who: Henry Clay was the leading congressman and the primary person for the Missouri Compromise.
Why: It helped with the issue of Slavery and was a first step in ending it.
What: A federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit Slavery's expansion
How: The compromise divided the lands of the Louisiana Purchase into two parts. But north of that line, slavery would be forbidden, except in the new state of Missouri.
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Wilmot Proviso
Who: David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso. Why: Fearing the addition of a pro-slave territory, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot proposed his amendment to the bill. What: It was an unsuccessful proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. How: It further divided the North and the South over Slavery. Where: It was introduced in PA. -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay was the main part of this compromise.
Why: It happened because there were disputes about slavery.
What: It was a package of 5 separate bills that were passed.
How: The slave trade in Washington D.C was abolished and California became a free state.
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Fugitive Slave Act
Who: Millard Fillmore was the main cause of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Why: states were seceding so they put this in place to quiet it.
What: It was part of the Compromise of 1850.
How: It required Slaves to be returned to their owners.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who: Harriet Beecher was the author of the book.
Why: While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws.
What: It is an anti-slavery novel.
How: It brought slavery to life in the northern states and angered the southerners.
Where: it was written in Brunswick Maine. -
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Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
Who: Senator Stephen Douglas started the Act.
Why: Douglas said he wanted to see Nebraska made into a territory and, to win southern support, proposed a southern state inclined to support slavery.
What: It was an act that wanted to make Nebraska into a territory and to get the southerner' support he had to support slavery.
How: It wanted to appeal the Missouri compromise
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Dred Scott Case
Who: Rodger B. Taney was the main contributor.
Why: He believed that since he got to a free state he was freed from slave bonds.
What: That having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom
How: It made the Missouri compromise unconstitutional.
Where: It took place in St. Louis. -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Who: It was between Lincoln and Douglas.
Why: Because of a large concern about slavery extension
What: a series of 7 debates to see who would win the election.
How: It determined who was going to be president.
Where: Ottawa, Galesburg, Freeport, Quincy, and Alton. -
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John Browns Raid
Who: John Brown was the biggest contributor to this.
Why: Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
What: One of John's sons was killed in the fighting.
How: Although the raid failed, it inflamed sectional tensions and raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election.
Where: This took place in Harpers Ferry. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
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Southern Secession
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