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compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 made California a free state, abolished slave trade in D.C., set up a stropng Fugitive Slave Act, and suported Popular Sovereignty. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
In 1852 Uncle Toms Cabin a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was released to try to end slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This law was passed to try and stop the problem of slavery in western territories but it ended up causing people to flee to these states to cast thier vote on wether or not the territories should be pro or anti- slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
A small scale civil war that lasted 4 months causing 200 deaths -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a missouri slave that attempted to sue for his freedom but supreme court ruled that he could not sye because he was not a cittizen and had no rights. This angered many northerners and many became Republicans. -
Licoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln and Douglass were running for senator of illinois in 1858. thier debates were called the Licoln-Douglass Debates. Lincoln thought that slavery was wrong but llegal so he thought it should not be expanded. Douglass won the election but Lincoln became nationaly famous. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry to stir up a slave revoltion in virginia and end slavery. John Brown was captured along with 10 other men, found guilty, and executed. -
Election of 1860
The south threaten to secede from the union if Lincoln was elected because they thought that he would abolish slavery because he promised to stop the expantion of slavery. Lincoln was elected and the south seceded saying that because the volentery joined the union they had the right to leave. The south formed the Confederate States of America. They elected Jefferson Davis as president and wrote a constitution that supported states rights and protected slavery. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the first battle of the civil war. It was the shot heard round the world
