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Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave act was passed was passed by the United States congress on Septemeber 18,1850. Its was a part between Southern Slave Holding and of Northen Free Soilers. This kind of act increased the amount of underground pailroad. This act was written with the intention of enforcing article 4 and section 2 of the U.S constitution. There were many runaway slaves that forced the authorities in free states and by the fugitive slaves by there own masters going around -
The release of Uncle Toms Cabin
The release of Uncle Toms cabin happend on March 20th,1852. It is an anti slavery novel. He wrote this novel because to show how evil slavery was at the time and he expressed his feelings. it changed eveything going around with people got the true meaning of it. It was a huge impact on how the Northerners viewed slavery in the civil war times. -
The Kansas -Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska act happend on May 30th,1854. It had created more terriitories of Kansas and Nebraska which had more openings of new lands for the settlements. It was passed by the U.S congress by the act of serving to repeal the Missouri Compormise of 1852. It had allowed settlers the terriotries to poplular sovereignty to allow the slavery in each to cause problems. -
Kansas Has Beome A State To The U.S
In the yer 1855 Kansas became a state to the U.S. But on May 30th 1854 president Franklin Pierce Signs the Kanasa-nebraska act into law. Kansas elects first territorial legislature Kansas votes against free state canidates. Then Kansas elects representitives to a constitutional convention to stop all thats going on with Pro Slaves. -
The Bleeding of Kansas War
The war of Bleeding Kansas happend on May 21st,1856. It was a series of violent politcal confrantations in the U.S between the ant-slavery free states and pro slavery. Sam Jones led the band of border to Kansas. Kansas called it the popular sovereignty.They have named it 'The Bleeding of Kansas War" because its violence indicated the compromise as it presaged the Civil War. -
Charles sumner was attacked by Preston Brooks
Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner. At the Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery. He himself Sumner had attack the Kansas Nebraska Act it was the speech from May 19 and May 20 to start the rivalry abou them both. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
The Pottawatomie Massacre happend in May 24th,1856 some of the memebers of the Pottawatomie Rifles killed five settlers it was very bloody. It was in the reaction of sacking Lawrence by the pro savery forces.It was John Brown with the settlers that started all of it with the killings. -
Dred Scott Decision
On March 5th,1857 the United States had issued the Dred Scott case. He had lost his case which he had thought that he should be free because he had been a slave that had been living in a slave state.These are the efforts to fight aginst slaves he had thought. -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected
Stephen A. Douglas had broke the Democratic party leadership over the Lecompton Constitution. It was created for allowing Kansas to be a slave state. The Nebraska act passed Kansas that allowed them to determine if they could eneter the union as a slave or to be free. It was the second of four that proposed constutions for the state of Kansas. -
Confederate States of America Formed
The Confederate states of America was formed by 11 southern states . The union had no choice but to refuse to reconize the conferdacy. They were all unreconized states from 1861-1865 that had to declare there succession from the United States.
