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personal liberty laws
laws passed in northern states to protect African Americans -
first fugitive slave laws
was put in place so Northerners would have to return escaped slaves; however, it was not supper effective as many would just lie and pretend not to know. -
invention of cotton gin
invented by Eli Whitney and Robert S. Munger, cotton gin gave new purpose to cotton therefore increasing the need for slaves in the south -
the Missouri compromise
Missouri wanted to be a free state but the south said no and instead made main a fee state, outlawing slavery at the 30-39 parallel -
Nat Turner's Rebelion
A slave rebellion led by Nat Turner which resulted in the death of 55-65 people, 51 of them being white -
The Amistad
a United States Supreme Court case that resulted from the rebellion of African-Americans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839 -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot proposed to outlaw slavery in newly acquired Mexican territory; however, this was unsuccessful. -
Filibustering expeditions
William Walker's private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English speaking colonies under his control -
compromise of 1850
five separate bills that where passed by the U.S. Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states -
Fugitive Slave Act revised
a stronger fugitive slave law that makes it almost impossible for African Americans or escaped slaves to become free. This law denied African Americans the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process to $1,000 and six months in jail. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
the first noval, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that had African Americans in prominent roles, said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" -
Republican Party
a new political party formed out of what was the free soilers, know nothings, Whigs, and the democrats -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas wanted to control the railroad so he created Kansas and Nebraska and dissolved the Missouri Compromise -
Bleeding Kansas
After Kansas becomes a state, southerners move in from Texas to vote Kansas as a slave state. this results in the emergence of a border war resulting in the death of 5 people. these 5 deaths a thought to be the first deaths of the civil war. -
Dred Scott Case
A supreme court case fighting for the freedom of the slave Dred Scott -
Lincon and Douglas Debates
A series of 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate -
Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown, lead a small group to raid a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, In an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy slavery -
Crittenden Compromise
An unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden -
Election of 1860
the election in which Abraham Lincoln was elected as president with vice president Hannibal Hamlin. -
Secession
Southern States secede from the nation leading to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War
