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The Compromise of 1850
This compromise stopped further territorial expansion while strengthening the fugitive slave act. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe was very controversial among northerners and southerners. It was a nationwide phenomenon that the northerners viewed in a good way and southerners viewed as a bunch of bologna. -
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 instituted a policy known as popular sovereignty. This caused a mass eruption of violence between opposing viewpoints. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
This was a famous U.S. Supreme court case including Dred Scott a Virginia slave. Dred Scott was considered property. -
John Brown's raid
During the years of "bleeding Kansas," John Brown took a band of free slaves and white men and raided a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
John Brown's execution
People were not happy because john brown was a nutty dude with some good opinions. -
Abraham lincolns election
The north liked him but the south did not. The emancipation proclamation.
