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The Missouri Compromise
A compromise that allowed Missouri to join the United states as a slave state while Maine joined as a free state to keep Congress in balance due to sectionalism or an extreme loyalty to a region to the country -
Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme court decided that Dred Scott was considered property and that the law said that property can't be taken away. Which meant that he was still a slave. -
Comprimise of 1850
Allows fugitives or runaways to be claimed by slave owners and let's California join as a free state and also allowed the slave trade to be banned in D.C. The South also wanted to secede or to separate from the U.S.A -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A bill giving statehood to Kansas and Nebraska the catch was that the people who went to live there got to decide if they were free states or slaves states this is known as popular sovereignty -
Bleeding Kansas- Sacking of Lawrence
Armed slavery supporters from Missouri also known as border ruffians attacked the town of Lawrence and burned homes, two newspaper offices, and the Free State Hotel. Due to this a civil war began in Kansas it was known as Bleeding Kansas. This got so drastic that a man attacked a senator with his cane. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln was not very popular so he asked Douglas to participate in seven debates with him which raised Lincoln's popularity. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown a antislavery believer attacked an arsenal in hopes of rallying slaves to fight none came John Brown was sentenced to death after he failed some people thought of him as a martyr or someone who dies for a good cause. -
Election of Lincoln
Republicans liked Lincoln's way of thinking and after the 1858 debates Lincoln had gained popularity so in the end he was elected as president. The Confederacy was already formed due to their theory that they chose to join the Union so they could leave at any time which is also known as States' rights. -
Lincoln's Inaugural Address
Lincoln said that he wanted the Union to stay together and not secede from each other. So he practically begged the South not to leave, but it was already to late to try to reason. -
Fort Sumter
The states that had once been part of the Union before secession had been thought of began attacking Fort Sumter something Lincoln hoped wouldn't happen. No lives were lost in the gunfire.
