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The Missouri Compromise
-Northern and Southern states politicans were having arguments about the growth of slavery
-Henry Clay comes and saves the day by settling this debate
-The Missouri Compromise was a bunch of laws that helped determine which states would become slaves states and which states would be free states
-The Missouri Compromise was on 36 30 -
The Nullification Crisis
-South states like South Carolina thought that tarrifs only benifited the North
-At this time Vice President John C. Calhoun said that states could nullify any law they thought was unconstintional
-The Federal Governement decided to deny South Carolinas argument
-After the Federal Governement denied South Carolinas agrument South Carolina threatened to leave
-To solve this issue Henry Clay made a compromise and lowered the tarrifs -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-The Congress passed the Fugitive Slave act in 1850
-This act allowed people in the North to capture slaves that escaped in the South
-With this act it increased the tensioins that the North and the South had
-This act also helped develop John Brown's Raid and the American Civil War -
The Compromise of 1850
-The Congress started having more debates
-The Congress couldnt agree on making the new territories from Mexico free or slave
-Henry Clay helped compromise again
-The Congress agreed on making California a free state
-However the Congress did not ban slavery for the rest of the terriories -
Bleeding Kansas
-Many proslavery people came to Kansas and voted Kansas to be a slave state however this was illegal
-People who opposed slavery started their own government
-Soon the people who opposed slavery got attacked by the people that believed in slavery
-John Brown murderded many of his neighbors that were proslavery -
Dred Scott Decision
-Dred Scott was a slave and he lived in Illinois which was a free state, Wisconsin which was a free territory and Missouri which was a slave state
-No black including free slaves could become ciizens of the United States
-Also the court decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
-Slavery was allowed in all territories of the country -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown wanted to give slaves the idea that they could escape
-He planned on arming the slaves
-John Brown and his men soon got captured
-Many abolitionsits admired what Brown did
-Also the tension of slavery increased -
The Election of 1860
-Abraham Lincoln wins
-Southern states start to secede once they hear the news that Lincoln won the elesction
