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The Fugitive Slave Act
Act that forced officers to arrest runwaway slaves, also this act lead to the increasing use of the Underground Railroad. -
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe was an abolistionist who wrote this book to show how evil slavery was. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas- Nebraska act was passed allowing Kansas and Nebraska territories to use popular soverignity whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. -
Charles Sumner is attacked
Rufflians attacked Lawrence, Kansas which was known to be a staunch free state. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be a free man because he had been held as a slave while being in a free state. -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected
Kansas rejected the Constitution because the state wanted to be slave free. -
John Brown raided Harper's Ferry
Brown was an abolionist who wanted to start a slave uprising by using the captured weapons. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
After being elected, South Carolina and six other states had seceded from the Union. -
Senate refuses to consider the The Crittenden Compromise
The Senate refuses the Compromise because they wanted slavery to be put to an end. -
Texas Legislature votes to secede from the Union
In the Texas Declaration of Secession it states "in all the non-slaveholding states, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party.
