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Missouri Compormise
A request to divide into slavery and non slavery, Maine became a free state and slavery was only allowed below(south) not above(north) -
Wilmont Proviso
It specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that Mexico will take over -
Compromise of 1850
Washington D.C. should not let trading or selling of slaves, New Mexico could be a free state, and California would be a free state -
Fugitive Slave Law
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which stunned people with her description of slavery -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
They are both likely to become free states, plan for a bill for the nation to expand the North and South, instead the bill reopened the conflict about slavery in terrritories -
Bleeding Kansas
Poeple who were against slavery and those who supported slavery moved to Kansas to vote on whether Kansas should allow slavery or not, before it became a free state there was a lot of violence -
Dred Scott Decision
Slaves are not citizens and only citizens can sue for crossing the free slavery territory -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
7 debates were held around Illinois between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas trying to get into the senate; the topic was slavery -
John Brown's Raid
Establish a base in Blue Ridge Mountains which would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders, later postponed for years and then failed- John Brown was later hung -
Lincoln Elected/ Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected even though his name wasn't on the vallet in other states -
Secession of South Carolina
South Carolina oppesed Lincoln's election and voted to break away, they did not want to be apart of the United States
