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Compromise of 1850 including fugitive slave act
Series of measures proposed by U.S. Senator Henry Clay and passed by congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and Avery the threat of dissolution of the Union -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska act reappeared the Missouri compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. This produced an uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas” as proslavery, causing antislavery activists to flood into the territories and sway the vote. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859 -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri during 1833 to 1843 he lived in Illinois, a free state and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed in Missouri court for his freedom claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. Scott's master maintained that no descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats. Although Lincoln lost the election, these debates launched him into national prominence which eventually led to his election as President of the United States.