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wilimot proviso
A proposal made by David Wilimot stating that congress ban slavery in any slavery won over from the Mexican - American war. -
Comprimise of 1850
The comprimise that would help both the North and the south get what they want, but fairly without ruining eachother and tearing eachother apart. -
kansas- nebraska act
Douglas chose to let the people decide weather or not the states became a free state or a slave state by popular sovergeigenty. -
Pottawatommie creek masscare
An antislavery settler named John Brown led seven of his men to Pottawatomie creek, there he murderd five proslavery men. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe about an enslaved man who was beaten. -
dred scott decision
A decision that was made by the supreme court that no slave could ever be considerd a citizen and Dred Scott was then no longer free. -
Lincoln - Douglas debate
" A house diviided against itself can not stand." This was what lincoln said when he ran for senate angainst Douglas. Lincoln lost, but this was a very important speech. -
JOhn Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
A raid that was formed in New England to set free enslaved people in the south by John Brown. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected republican president
The republicans choose lincoln as their canidate for the republican party for president. -
South Carolina seceds from the union
With the hope of accommodation all but gone, South Carolina left the union with a following of many other states. -
confederate states of america are formed
LEaders from many states met to form a new nation in America called the confederate states. -
Confederate troops at fire at fort sumter
COnfederate troops fired through out the whole day at fort Sumter.
