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Wilmont Provisio
It was designed to eliminate slavery within the land required from the Mexican American War -
Compromise of 1850
Congress passed 5 bills. The bills were to please the North and the South in slavery in the new states -
Uncle Tom's cabin is first published
A book about an enslaved man who is aboused named Tom. Tom dies after a severe beating. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
A propose by Stephen Douglas to make a railroad from Illinois through Nabraska and the Pacific Ocean. -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek
John was antislavery. He led 7 men to a proslavery settlement and they killed 5 people -
Dred Scott Decision
A free slave went to court to prove he was free. The court said he was not free. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate, A house divided
This was a debate that got Lincoln a name that people would know and they liked him -
John Brown's raid at Harper's ferry
Him and a small band of supporters attacked. H egave slaves weapons and they helped him fight -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
South Carolina did not want to be in the Union. They became a slaves state -
Confederate states are formed
6 mroe states followed South Carolina iin joining as slaves states and be a Confederate state -
Abe Lincoln becomes president
He beat Stephan Douglas -
Confederates fire at Fort Sumter
They set fire to the fort and the U.S. troops surrendered. They were waiting for food
