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compromise of 1850
Admission of CA as a free state
Slaves being sold in DC
Utah & new Mexico being admitted as slave states
Fugitive slaves laws during this time
Keep the balance between slave and free states
HENRY CLAY -
kansas nebraska act
people in the territories could decide for themselves wheather their states would allow slavery
People began flooding into kansa -
bleeding kansas
caused a small scale civil war in kansas which lasted for 4 months and caused 200 deaths . Became the rallying cry for the anti-slavery northerns and the political party called the republicans. -
Dred Scott
Slave
Sued for his freedom
African americans were not citizens and could not sue.Slaves were property
Increasd the tension between the Northern and Southern states -
harpers ferry
jonh Brown
seized the federal asenal
plan=stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery -
Election of 1860
the voters in 1860 voted mostly basd on which section of the country they lived in.Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreeding in to te new territories -
forth sumter
the south opened fire on the north and the north surrendered
THE WAR BEGAN!
