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Wilmont Proviso
David Wilmont introduced this proviso in this date to try to stop slavery in the territories and one now known as the Mexican Cession, and future territories. He introduced this first on the listed date in plans to resolve the Mexican-American War. It passed in the House of Reps. but failed in the Senate. He also tried to get it apart of the Treaty of Guadelupe Hildago later in 1848 and also failed. -
Compromise of 1850
Desicion on wheather to make new territories free or slave stetes. Henery Clay was asked to write this compromise, and later disputes came up upon distraction. During this time the Fugitive-Slave Act was also passed. Whiched stated that slaves found in the north were to be returned to the south. -
fugitive slave act
This Act stated that any runaway slaves were "property" and to be returned back to their masters in the southern states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
this book was writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and published in 1852. Lincoln called her, " the little who started this great big war." She was an abolishionist and a teacher, this book was all over the country, and was taken at many different point-of-views... -
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Bleeding Kansas
a small civil war created by popular soveriegnty. and a dispute over slavery between northerners and southeners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas -
Dred Scott Disicion
dred scott was a slave who went to court to try for his freedom. he also went to sepreme court and they ruled that " slaves were not citezens, therefore they could not be tried for their freedom." -
lincoln-douglas debates
abe licoln and stephen douglas were running for senator in 1858.Lincoln said,"Slavery was wrong but legal, and protected by the Constitution." Douglas won the debate for senator. -
election of 1860
Election of 1860 was when Abe Lincoln was running for president and won. The south threatened they would secede. Eventually, they did. they called their new country "The Confederate States of America." Their elected leader of their new seceded
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, 1860, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surreptitiously moved his small command from the indefensible Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a substantial fortress
