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Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay came up with the missouri compromise in 1820 to solve the problem of deciding whitch states where free and which states where slave. Henry compromise stated the any state below the thirdy-six, thirty line where slave states and any above this line where free. to keeps things even when the south added Missouri as a slve state the north added Maine as a free state. -
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The Nullification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a crisis while Andrew Jackson was president.It was Ccreated by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.it declared that the tarriffs set by the federal government were unconstitutional and therefor people did not have to pay it. -
Dred Scott Decision
in 1846 the Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford. Dred Scott was a slave that lived in a free state with his owner before returning to Missouri. He stated that the time he spend in a free state he was entitled emancipation. The court disagreed arguing that no black, free or slave could get U.S. citizenship, so black were unable to press for their freedom. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay came up with the Compromise of 1850. It stated that California was a free state and Utah and New Mexico were territories that were neither slave nor free. This settled a dispuite ending slave trade in Washihngton, D.C. -
Fugitive Slave Acts of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Acts were laws put into place by the federal government to allow capture and reture of runaway slaves in the United States. Anyone who refuced to obey th law would be penolized. -
Bleeding Kansas 1855
Bleeding Kansas is a term used to descibe the violence that took place in the settling of Kansas. Instead of using the Missouri Compromise line Kansas used popular soverighnty to decide whether Kansas was a free or slave state, which eventually led to violence. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry 1859
John Bowenwas an abolitionist that led a small group on a raid against the federal army in Harpers Ferry, Virgina. It was an attempt to start a slave revolt and destroy slavery. -
The Election of 1860
On November, 6 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. After his Election the south became extremley angry and decide to start suceeding from the union. Later all of the south suceeded from the nation bevause they were unhappy about Lincoln election. The south started calling themselves The Conferderacy and the north stated calling themselves The Union.
