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The Missouri Compromise
missouri wanted to be attmited as a slave state but it would upset the balace between free and slave states so the also attmited maine as a free state so they could keep the balance. -
The Underground Railroad
It helped slaves escape from southern states into northern states by hidden passage ways. It was led by Harriet Tubman that helped them get into Canada, -
Fugitive Slave Act
Denied slaves accused of being runaways a trial to prove their innocence. Even free slaves were sometimes taken because they matched the description of those that ran away. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
it was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to depict the life of slaves since northerners couldnt see for themselves how bad it was. the book stated how they were treated and also how bad their life was. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
It allowed the people of the two states to decide for themselves whether or not they want to allow slavery in the state by popular vote. -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro and anti slavery supporters both went to kansas in hopes of shifting the decision with the number of people there. Both parties struggled for five years with sporadic bloodshed that took 56 lives. -
Dred Scott Vs. Sanford
A slave was taken to live in a free state for a couple of years and then taken back to a slave state. He felt that he should be a free man so he took this problem to court where they ruled he is still a slave. -
John Brown's Raid
He raided a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to seize weapons and distribute them to southern slaves in order to spark a series of slave uprisings. He was then surrounded and killed by Robert E. Lee. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and his antislavery outlook brought fear into many southerners.So many states in the south seceded from the union . -
Southern Secession
southern states were scared of the abolition of slavery so they seceded from the union so that they could keep slavery since they relied on it so much
