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Wilmot Proviso
Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery.
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Compromise of 1850
Helped slave holders recapture runaway slaves. Defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. Ended slavery, -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri. -
Dred Scott Decision
the United States Supreme Court declared that all blacks were not and could never become citizens of the United States. -
Lincoln–Douglas debates
Seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Harper's Ferry
Tried to stop slavery. Siezed the federal arsenal. -
Election of 1860
Was a quadrennial election for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Fort Sumter
Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.