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The Missouri Compromise made Missouri join as a slave state, but made Maine join as a free state to keep the balance. -
Nat Turner, a slave, rebelled with followers, and killed almost 60 white people. -
Proposed that any territory acquired from Mexico had to be free.(not owning slaves) -
War between the United States and Mexico started over land disputes. America won, and forced Mexico to give away half their territory. -
Gold discovered in California caused many to come looking for gold. They became known as the "forty-niners" -
Harriett Tubman escaped slavery into Philadelphia. She then helped with the underground railroad to help more slaves escape -
California wanted to join as a free state which could cause an imbalance between free and slave states. -
Act passed to force slaves that have escaped north to be returned to their slave owners in the south. -
Novel against slavery that became very influential leading up to the civil war. -
Rid of the Missouri Compromise resulting in popular sovereignty -
People came to Kansas and started killing each other to sway votes -
SCOTUS case ruling that slaves were not citizens, therefore, they receive no protection from the government. -
Debate between Stephen A. Douglass and Abraham Lincoln about slavery -
John Brown wanted to start a abolitionist movement by capturing the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Lincoln V. Douglass election. Lincoln won -
After a republican victory in the election, South Carolina assumed that slavery would be removed. This caused South Carolina to secede from the United States.