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Missouri Compromise
it was lowered because slavery was permitted -
Mexican war
it raised over the expansion of slavery, because america won over the land of Texas. -
Wilmot Proviso
It lowered slavery, because the wilmot proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the a land. -
California gold rush
it raised because some slave owners brought more slaves to find and dig for the gold -
Compromise of 1850
Slavery was lowered, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. -
Fugitive slave law
it got lowered because the north and south became more divided over slavery -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
it lowered the slavery, because of how bad he experienced as a slave -
Republican Party Forms
The republican party lowered slavery because they try to stop slavery so it cant expand to the west. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
The crime against kansas, the speech, made in the senate by summer, denounced slave states, especially south Carolina. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
It lowered slavery dred scott, was a slave, and was taken by his owner into a free territory. Scott sued and argued that this meant he was now free. -
john brown's raid at Harper's ferry
John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. so slavery kind of went down -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
abraham lowered slavery lincoln issued his first Emancipation Proclamation, which announced that at the beginning of 1863, he would use his war powers to free all slaves in states still in rebellion -
Battle at Fort Sumter
The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, slavery grew instead of lowering -
“Bleeding Kansas”
it got lowered because popular sovereignty failed because people in Kansas could not agree over slavery. -
Southern states begin to secede
The slavery went down because six other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them.
