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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Would be admitted as a slave state and Maine would be admitted as a free state additionally a line would be made at 36°, 30'N separating the slave and the non-slave states. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion killing slave owners and their family's this ultimately led to harsher punishments for slaves -
Compromise of 1850
During the Compromise of 1850 California would be a free state but stronger fugitive laws would be passed also slave trade would be banned in D.C and slavery would be voted on each side of the country additionally Texas would give up its claim to parts of New Mexico for $10 million dollars to cover their debt. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe the book was about the horrors of slavery and how bad it was, this caused more Northerners to become abolitionists. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty this outraged anti slavery representatives and produced a violent uprising known as "Bleeding Kansas" -
Dred Scott Ruling
The Dred Scott Ruling basically said that African Americans were not citizen (free or enslaved), and that slaves were property and property is protected by the 5th amendment. -
John Brown's raid
John brown wanted to arm the slaves so he led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get guns, but he was ultimately caught and tried for treason and was hung. -
1860 Election
On the day of the 1860 election many southern states said that if Lincoln was elected they would secede, Abraham Lincoln had been elected by popular vote when he was elected South Carolina was the first to secede along with Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas and they formed the Confederate States of America and wrote a constitution that supported states rights and protected slavery, Lincoln's first act is that he made secession illegal and after that they went to war.