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Missouri Compromise
It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five seperate bills
-Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line
-California's admission as a free state with its current boundaries was approved.
-The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories and the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory could decide in the future to become slave states by popular sovereignty.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
This was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
First Shots fired at Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
