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Missouri Compromise
-As America expands west, north and south politicians argued over slavery growth.
-Henry Clay created a compromise, known as "The Missouri Compromise," that settled the debates.
-The Missouri Compromise was a line drawn at 36°30'.
-Maine would be a free state, Arkansas would be open to slavery.
Any states above the line would be free, any states below would be slave.
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The Nullification Crisis
-Southern states, like South Carolina, felt tariffs were unconstitutional.
-South Carolina nullifies the tariffs.
-The federal government did not agree and South Carolina threatened to secede.
-Henry Clay created a compromise that allowed South Carolina to stay by lowering the tariffs. -
Dred Scott Decision
-Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847
-10 years later, his case was brought before the supreme court
-Court claimed that slaves as well as free blacks are not american citizens
-Says federal government does not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories -
Compromise of 1850
-Debate whether territories obtained from Mexico should be admitted as free or slave states.
-Henry Clay, created, "The Compromise of 1850."
-California would be aditted as a free state; slave trading in Washington D.C. to be abolished.
-Congress could not pass laws banning slavery from the Mexican territories. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-Act passed by Congress, that allowed slave owners capture slaves that escaped to the north.
-Many abolitionists did not like the act.
-This led to John Brown's raid and the civil war. -
Bleeding Kansas
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-It introduced popular soverenignity.
-Many proslavery people came to Kansas to vote for proslavery representatives in Kansas.
-As a result, Kansas had a proslavery government.
-The abolitionists created a new government, but was attacked by proslavery forces.
-Abolitionist, John Brown killed many of proslavery people to avenge the attack. - -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-Led by John Brown
-Planned to capture the arsenal at an army base in Harpers Ferry
-Wanted slaves to fight for their freedom, but none joined in battle
-Brown and his men were captured and Brown was put to death
-Raised tensions of slaverybetween north and south -
Election of 1860
-Lincoln wins election
-Lincoln says he would not abolish slavery in the south
-South does not trust him and secedes
