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Wilmot Proviso
U,S had to write a new constitution to keep North and South both satisfied. The resolution was the Compromise of 1850. -
Compromise of 1850
Kept North and South Satisfied for a while. Fugitive slave law was passed and CA became a free state, -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to hope end slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a great American novelist who wrote about the slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People in territorys could decide for themselves whether they want to be slave or free. -
Bleeding Kansas
Small scale Civil war in Kansas. The soldiers had a cry - "Bleeding Kansas." -
Dred Scott Decision
Slave That sued for his freedom. Court issued slaves were property, therefore they could not sue. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln And Douglass running for senate in Illinois. Lincoln loses, but gains alot of fame. -
Harper's Ferry
Raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia by a man named John Brown. Brown was planning to end slavery. -
Election of 1860
Presidential election, Lincoln won, South seceded from the country and created their own republic called "The Confederate States Of America." -
Fort Sumter
First shot of civil war fired here,
Nobody died except a horse. South fired first shot at North.
