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Period: to
19th Century
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Missouri Compromise
misouri wanted a slave state and mane wanted a free state -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
it made territories for kanasa and nebraska that popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery -
compromise of 1850
it was 5 bills passed which would defuse a four year confrontation form the slaves in the south and the north -
Wilmot Proviso
It banned slavery in the mexican cession -
bleeding kanas
it is called bleeding kanas because of all the blood that was shed between the pro- and anti slavory -
dred scott case
he sued for his freedom and the supreme court said that he was property and not free and then the 5th amendment protected to right to own properity and called it uncontitonal -
john browns raid
jonh brown and 18 other guys were going to attack a base that held slaves and arm them for rebeillion