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Civil War Choo-Choo Train
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MIssouri Compromise
-North and South fight over slavery
-Henry Clay came up with this compromise
-Compromise did settle the debate
-Series of laws that kept the slave and free state balence -
Nullification Crisis
-Tarrif laws passed
-South disagrees and belives they only favor the North
-Calhoun says any state can void a law they believe as unconstitutional
-Federal Goverment denies them
-South Carolins threaten to secede
-Henry Clay makes a compromise and lowers the tarrif -
Compromise of 1850
-Congress had debates over recently won Mexican territory
-Henry Clay created compromise
-California would be admitted as a free state
-Slave trade in DC abolished
-No law banning slavery in the rest of teritories won from Mexioc -
Fugitive Slave Act
-Passed in 1850 by congress
-Permitted capture of African Americans who fled to the north to escape slavery
-Heighted tensions
-Set stage for John Brown's raid and the Civil War -
Election of 1860
-Abraham Lincoln wins the election
- Southern States begin to secede from the union after Lincoln becomes president
- Southerners didn't trust him -
Bleeding Kansas
- 5,000 people from proslavery Missouri -Voted for proslavery represenitives in Kansas that were illegal
- Anti-Slavery people started their own goverment
- Anti-Slavery gov. was attacked ny prosalvery troops
- Abolitionist John Brown murdered several of his proslavery neighbors
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Dred Scott Decision
-Scott was a slave who lived in the free state of Illinois and Wisconsin
- Next he moved to slave state Missouri
- All blacks reguaredless of free or slave could not be US citizens
- Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
- Salvery permitted in all of the country's territories -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown wanted to inspire salves to fight for freedom
- Planned to capture the arsenal in Virgina to arm the slaves
- Brown and his men were captured in their attempt
-Abolitionists saw Brown as a hero and saluted him
- Slavery tensions rose dramatically and went over the top
