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Compromise of 1850
Effort by congress to settle several issues of slavery -
Fugitive Slave Law
passed by the congress to return runaway slaves. people who harbored slaves where now subject for punishment -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication
Harriet Beecher Stowe published the controversial book in 1852. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Act to make kansas and nebraska states -
Sumner attacks Brooks in Senate
senator brooks attacked northen congressman sumner about the expansion of slavery. -
Birth of the Republican Party
former members of the whig party establish a new party. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Court ruled Dred Scott not a free man after he had lived in the free state of Illinois. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into Harpers Ferry Virginia. -
Election of 1860
the election of 1860 between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Beckinridge. -
Shots Fired at Fort Sumter, SC
First shots fired of the Civil War