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Mexican American War
LinkIt was a war between the United States and Mexico. Overall in the end of the war we got california and texas from beating mexico. -
Wilmot Proviso
LinkThis Bill was made to end slavery in all new territories achieved from mexico from the war and it was denied by the senate twice before the compromise in 1848. -
John Brown's Raid
Was a group of slaves that went slave owner to slave owner and killed the owners and freed the slaves. -
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Underground Railroad
LinkIt was a group of seceret routes and safe houses which slaves went to hide so they could escape from slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
LinkA group of bills that had the states that were won from the mexican american war were to be free states. -
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
LinkA novel about a slave that went through his live and troubles he faces, which was ground work for the civil war. -
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Bleeding Kansas
LinkIt was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri. -
Ostend Manifesto
LinkThis was a document that said we should take cuba from spain and if they refuse then we should go to war with spain. Debate took place to see if cuba was to be a slave state. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
LinkSouth Carolina Representative Preston Brooks nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor for ridiculing slaveowners as pimps in his vitriolic denunciation of the "Crime against Kansas." -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred was a slave in the northern states but since it was illegal he went to court but sense he is black he isnt a citizen so he couldn't go to court. -
Kansas-Nebraska
LinkWas the act of opening up Kansas and Nebraska so people could settle in the area and had them decide if they were going to be a free or slave state.
