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Wilmot Proviso
A compromise was needed in order to save the union and to prohibit slavery in the south.The compromise was eventually written and Henry Clay was asked to write it. It passed the House but failed in the Senate, where the South had greater representation.Played a factor in abolishing slavery,and a MAJOR role in the starting of "The Civil War". -
Compromise of 1850
This was five bills,Which were:
1.California would be a slave state
2.Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line
3.Slave trade was banned in D.C.
4.Fugitive SLave Act
5.Two territories could vote on wether to permit slavery or not -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
-A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Worked toward ending slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Was passed to try to solve the issue of slavery in the western territories.
- Had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
-A mini "Civil War" in Kansas
-Debating wether or not to enter as free or slave state
-Eventually entered as a free state :) <3 -
Dred Scott Decision
-Missouri slave sued for his freedom
-Eventually ruled that he was not a citizen,therefore he cant sue -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
-Series of debates about slavery between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate
-Eventually Douglas won :( -
Harper's Ferry
-There was a raid on Harper's Ferry
-Led by John Brown
-Ment to stir up a slave revolt
-Did not work :( -
Election of 1860
-Election between Abe Lincoln,John C. Breckinridge,John Bell,And Stephen A. Douglas
-South threatend to secede if Lincoln was elected
-Lincoln was elected and south did secede
-South was now called Confederate States Of America
-Jefferson Davis was elected as South's president
