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Missouri Compromise
Congress was compelled to establish a policy to guide the expansion of slavery into the new western territory. Missouri’s application for statehood as a slave state sparked a bitter national debate. -
Nat turners Rebellion
incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Turner and approximately seventy cohorts killed around sixty white people. -
United states president election of 1848
free soil party brought people to realize slaves werent right and took some votes away from others -
Compromise of 1850
The measures contained in this act caused a further divide between the north and the south. The north did not want a fugitive slave law and the south feared more slave states entering the union. -
Westward expansion
Expansion to the west which led to the other states out there deciding to either become slave or free states -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Northerners felt as if their eyes had been opened to the horrors of slavery, while Southerners protested that Stowe’s work was slanderous. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Douglas wanted to see west become a part of the united states -
John browns raid
Abolitionist John Brown supported violent action against the South to end slavery and played a major role in starting the Civil War. -
Abraham lincolns election
his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners. -
Battle of fort sumter
On April 12, 1861, Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold. The garrison surrendered on April 14.