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Wilmot Proviso 1846
democratic representative of the united states from Pennsylvania a ban to slavery but it did not work. -
Compromise of 1850
Five separate bills passed by the united states congress in September 1850. This made a four year long argument between slave and non-slave states. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
Harriet Beecher Stowe who was against slavery wrote a book. It was published 1852 was about how slavery was bad and she did not agree with slavery. Pushed towards the civil war. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The bill was mandated as popular sovereignty which meant that men could decide where slaves could be and could not be. This led to pro and anti slavery settlers to get mad at one another which also led to violence which was known as bleeding Kansas -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek May 25, 1856
They were fighting the pro slavery settlers in Kansas because of they'er beliefs -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President
Lincoln became the new Republican party leader. He was the 16th president. He received only 40 percent of the popular votes. He was a former lower living in Kentucky. He was a former Whig representative. By the time Lincoln's inauguration on March 4,1861 seven state had been succeeded -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate "A House Divided Against itself cannot stand."
During the senate debate on the compromise of 1850 Sam Houston had proclaimed that a nation divided cannot stand. -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Pro slavery men raided the abolitionist. Brown wanted revenge so he brought his five sons with the idea that they were going to start a slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. One of brown's sons were killed during the fight. Brown went back to the east when he failed to fight the pro slavery men and started to raise money to carry out his vision of the slave uprising. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union. South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States -
Confederate States of America are formed
11 states that seceded from the united states in 1860 which followed the election of president Lincoln This was dissolved may 5,1865 -
Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
After south Carolina seceded the state demanded that the fort to be turned over but the union officials refused. A supply ship tried to come over but the shore batteries fired and the ship have to turn back. The union could not let it fall into the confederates, though that had happened through the deep south federal installations and shut down. -
Dred Scott Decision
Enslaved African American man who moved for of the west but was not a freeman yet but he thought he was also he unsuccessfully tried to sue for his freedom.
