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The Missouri Compromise
The 36'30' line was drawn it was supposed to decide whether slavery would be allowed in certin territories or not. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was to stop the spread of slavery into the territories won from Mexico. -
Free Soil Party
Political Party formed by Northerners who wanted to discuss the issue of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
5 parts of this plan
1.California enters as a free state
2.Area from Mexican Cession divided into Utah and New Mexico. Slavery issue to be decided by Popular Sovereignth
3.Ended slave trade in Washington D.C
4.Made a Strict Fugitive Slave Law
5.Settled border problems between New Mexico and Texas -
Fugitive Slave Law
A law that requires citizens to catch runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Novel written to show the evils of slavery by telling the story of an older slave who was whipped to death. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Divides lands into Kansas and Nebraska territories and slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. -
Pottowatomi Creek Killings
John Brown and his sons rode into town and pulled five pro-slavery men out of their beds in the middle of the night and killed them -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was ruled a piece of property and could not file a lawsuit to become a free man like he truly was.
