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Wilmot Proviso
Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery.
He failed but the south is concerned. -
Compromise of 1850
- California was a free state
- D.C.No more slave trade
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Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book
Wanted to end slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A law passed that tried to solve the problem in the western territories about slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
Small scale civil war in Kansas
Wanted to end slavery -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Debating over slavery.
Douglass won -
Dred Scott Decision
Aferican americans were not citizens and could not sue
Dred Scott lost his caes -
Harper's Ferry
A slave revolt
Wanted to end slavery -
Election of 1860
A presidential election
Lincoln Won -
Fort Sumter
Start of the Civil War
First shots were fired