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Wilmot Proviso
They believed that in order to keep the peace, they needed to keep the balance between slave and free states. -
Compomise of 1850
Compromise to keep the balance between free and slave states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book was written to help get word out to put an end to slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Law passed that tried to solve the problem of slavery in Western territories. People in the territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery. People egan flooding into kansas and Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
A small scale civil war in Kansas became a rallying cry for the anti-slavery Northerns & the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred was a slve who was sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens but property. This increased the tension between the Northern and Southern states. He lost. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debate
Lincoln and Douglass were running for the Senator of Illinois. They debated over slavery. Douglass won, but Lincoln became nationally famous. -
Harper's Ferry
Virginia had a slave revolt led by John Brown who siezed federal arsenal. He wanted to end slavery and became a hero. -
Election of 1860
The US is voting for the president. Lincoln won. The South seceded and called its new government the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as their president. The CSA constitution said it supported states' rightes and slavery. -
Fort Sumter
This was the first battle. Lincoln sending supplies to the fort set off the war.
