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Missouri Compromise
An agreement in 1820, between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana purchase, except in Missouri. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Part of "the compromise of 1850." california came into the country as a free state. This allowed popular soviernty, but strengthened fugitive slave laws. -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
Restated Popular-sovergienty. repealed missouri compromise.Infuriated northerners by over ruling the compromise of 1850 -
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Bleeding Kansas
involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in kansas. they fought over the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. -
Sumner/Brooks Incident
Preston Smith Brooks (a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina) physically attacked Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate chambers. he beat him with a cane giving him serious brain damage that he would later die of. -
Dred scott Decision
Dred Scott vs. Sanford. This case decided that slaves during this time had no legal rights. they could not sue, were not citizens, and could not be taken by the Federal government.
