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Missouri Compromise
-The north and south had many debates over slavery.
-Henry Clay is a great compromiser.
-The Missouri Compromise-a series of laws that helped maintain the balance between slave state and free states -
Nulification Crisis
-Southern states:felt that the tariffs were unfair.
-John C. Calhoun: "Any state could nullify a federal law it considers unconstitutional."
-Henry Clay came up with a compromise. -
Compromise of 1850
-Congress had more debates about the new territories won from Mexico and if it was going to be free or slave states.
-Henry Clay helped make a compromise between the North and the South again
-California would be a free state
-Congress wouldn't pass laws banning slavery from the rest of the territories -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-Congress passed the act.
-It allowed people to capture freed slaves that escaped from the south. -
Bleeding Kansas
-5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
-The anit-slavery govenm. was attacked by the pro-slavery ppl.
-To get revenge, John Brown murdered his pro-slavery nieghbors. -
Dred Scott Decision
-Dred was a slave who lived in a free state.
-All blacks, free and slaves, couldnt be a citizen.
-They made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
-Slavery was allowed everywhere. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom.
-He planned to capture the arsenal at the army base in Harpers.
-But he was captured.
-He was killed by abolitionists -
Election of 1860
-Abraham became president
-Shortly after, Southern states seceded from the union.
