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wilmot proviso
The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, it would have banned slavery in any territory to be gained from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande. -
compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which stopped a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American war. -
uncle toms cabin
Uncle toms cabin was a novel written during the civil war.It was written by american abolitionist harriet beecher stowe in 1852.Stowe was a hartford female graduate. -
kansa nebraska act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. The act was designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
bleeding kansas
bleeding kansas or bloody kansa was a series of violent political confrontations involvin anti-slavery free states.It took place in kansas territory.The question was would kansas e a slave or free state.bleeding kansas was a proxy war between northern and southeren states. -
dred scott decision
Dred scott was a slave who sued for freedom.But the supreme court ruled african americans were not citizens and could not sue.This caused great tension between the north and south. -
lincoln douglass debates
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; thus Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face. -
harpers ferry
What happened in harpers ferry west virginia was a raid that occured on 1859 of october.Jhon brown led this raid and he raided the kansas federal arsenal. -
election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was an election, held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the outbreak of the American Civil War.The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. -
fort sumter
located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
