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Period: to
19th Century
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Missouri Compromise
Author:Almost every U.S. senator and representative had a hand in creating it.(NoAuthor)
Key Points:1. Missouri will be admitted as a slave state 2. Maine will be admitted as a free state 3. Anything above the line was considered a free state. -
Wilmot Proviso
Author: David Wilmot
Key Points: Banned Slavery in the Mexican cession -
Compromise Of 1850
Author: Henry Clay
Key Points: California:Free, New Mexico: Slave, Texas could be seperated into 5 states, Ban slave trade in Waashington D.C, New fugitive law-Captured slaves had to be turned in. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Author:None
Key Points: Allowing white male settling in those to determine popular soverignty,the would allow slavery within each territory -
''Bleeding Kansas"
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Free slave was taken to free state by owner.Was still property due to the 5th amendment.Sued for being property.
Lost case . -
John Brown's Raid.
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.
