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Missouri Compromise
The North and Souh were have debates over abolition and slavery. Henry Clay settled the debates and he made the Missouri Compromise that balanced slavery in slave states and in free states -
The Nullififcation Crisis
Southern states get like the tariffs were unfair and only supported the north. VP Calhoun said any state could nullify a federal law that is unconstitutional. -
Bleeding Kansas
5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally -
Dred Scott Decision
Scott sued for his freedom but the court said that since he was not considered a citizen, was not on his residence, and he was property of his onwer that hhe couldn't sue the court -
Attack on Hapers Ferry
John Brown tried to attack harpers ferry and he was captured. -
The Election of 1860
Abe Lincoln won the election of 1860 and southern states begin to secede from the Union after Lincoln is elected. -
Compromise of 1850
California would be a free state and congress would not pass laws bann
