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The Missouri compramise
The Missouri Compromise, submitted by Henry Clay, was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
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The Mexican War
The war resulted with the addition of California and other new states to the USA. The question of whether these new states would be free or lave greatly heated the national debate on slavery. -
The Compramise of 1850
California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. In exchange, the south was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. Texas lost its boundary claims in New Mexico, but the Congress compensated Texas with $10 million. Slavery was maintained in the nation's capital, but the slave trade was prohibited. Finally, and most controversially, a FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW was passed, requiring northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners under pe -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
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Bleeding Kansas
violence during the settleing period of the Kansas territory, It happened over slavery, Saying is was a mistress -
‘Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight
It was a conflict having too do with slavery which also relates the Bleeding Kansas -
Dred Scott Decision
affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. -
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Slaves helped the man for their freedom they tried to end slavery, later the man was hung and killed fot the murder and the crimes he committed on December 2 1859 -
Election of 1860
Abraham licoln was elected, -
South Carolina secedes from Union
Its action made South Carolina the first state to secede. Support for the Union was negligible, and a distinguished South Carolina unionist, James L. Petigru, allegedly commented at this time that his state was too small to be a nation and too large to be an insane asylum. -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
Battle of Antietam
The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation
it was a war to free slavery, The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
the north overan the south, part of the civial war -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’
combined forces of General Grant and General Sherman looked to put an end to the war altogethe for the civial war