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Missouri Compromise
Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes free. And the Louisiana Purchase territory line goes from the Mississippi Delta to what is now the Canadian border of North Dakota and past the northern border of what is now Montana. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Was basically slaves that rebelled and together they killed 55-61 white slave owners. All involved were executed and there were harsher punishments for slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
California becomes free and slave trade is banned in D.C, South gets rest of the Mexican Cession and stronger fugitive slave laws -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Showed how brutal it was for slaves and it brought more abolitionists. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Divides land into 2 territories Nebraska and Kansas. Decided by popular sovereignty. -
Dred Scott Ruling
What the Dred Scott Ruling basically said was that "enslaved people were not citizens of the U.S" -
John Brown's raid
Brown and his men captured citizens and went after federal armory and arsenal. Location was Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, John Brown was executed. -
1860 Election
The winner was Abraham Lincoln, He decided to make a law that made secession illegal, They later have formed the Confederate States of America