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Missouri Compromise
Congress and Northern and Southern states were involved.
1. Missouri Joined the union as a slave state.
2. Maine JOined the union as a free state.
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Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion also known as Southampton Insurrection was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton Virginia that killed 55 to 65 people with at least 51 being white.
1. Nat Turner was captured and hanged
2. It was the only effective slave rebellion
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Mexican American War
War fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion. -
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Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay and the Northern/Southern states were involved. Resolutions were passed in an attempt to seek a compromise and avoid crisis between the north and the south.
1. The Fugitive slave act was amended
2. The slave trade in Washington D.C was abolished
It kind of actually decreased/maintained the tension between the northand the south as they both benefited from the comromise. Thr North thought the end of the slave trade in D.C. and the south through the Fugitive slave act. -
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Fugitive Slave Act
Part of the compromise of 1850 which involved Senator Henry Clay and the North/Southern states. It strengthened the Fugitive slave act of 1793.
1. It required that people of free states must cooperate in the capturing of fugitive slaves.
2. It was nicknamed the bloodhound for the docs that were used to track down fugitive slaves.
This increased tention between the north and the south as it forved northerners who didnt support slavery to cooperate in the recapturing of slaves. -
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
1. it was the best selling novel of the 19th century
2. It had a huge influence on how the American public viewed slavery.
It increased tension between the north and the south because it convinced a lot of people to get rid of slavery. -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Involved Kansas and Nebraska and tried to repeal the Missouri compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of 35-degree latitude.
1. Ended with the Bloody Kansas in which Proslavery and antislavery people came and fought in Kansas as they were both trying to get a majority.
2. In the end, the Kansas-Nebraska act failed.
It drastically increased tension between the north and south as it was bassically saying who ever can get more people to live in kansas decided if its a free or slave state. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
Sumner-Brooks Affair. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner sat as his desk in the nearly empty Chamber of the United States Senate on May 22, 1856. He had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. The speech described atrocities occurring in Kansas -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. -
Election of 1860
the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
North Carolina Secession
the state of North Carolina made the most calamitous decision in its history. Following the states of the Deep South, the Tar Heel state seceded from the Union and joined the war for Southern independence.
