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compromise of 1850
a series of measures, that were passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and avoid withdrawal. -
publication of uncle toms cabin
the book chhanged how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. -
kansas- nebraska act
bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. -
bleeding kansas
series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery. pro slavery and anti slavvery fought for the control of kansas and which it would be. -
brooks summer affair (violence in congress)
Preston S. Brooks beat Charles Summers with a cane until it broke. -
dred scott decision
a slave whos master took him to free soil but had to take him back to slave land until he died,Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War. -
john browns raid
ed eighteen men-thirteen whites and five blacks-into virgina. violent struggles between pro- and antislavery forces in Kansas, Brown intended to provoke a general uprising of African Americans that would lead to a war against slavery. -
election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won a bitter election
