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Compromise of 1820
Slaves were prohibited in the former Louisiana Territory except in Missouri. Balance the number of states with slaves and without slaves. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso prevented slavery in territories one from Mexico. -
Free Soil Party
Congress is starting to divide over the issue of slavery which started a 3rd party that is the Free Soil Party. They oppose slavery into western territories. California was admitted into Union as a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
California is a free state. Slave trade ended in Washington DC. -
Callifornia becomes free state
CalIfornia becomes the 31st state in the union on this day in 1850. -
Bleeding Kansas
Some of the early settlers in Kansas territory were involved in the politics and guerrilla warefare concerning whether or not Kansas should enter the Union as a free state or slave state. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 was to be the last straw dividing the country about the issue of slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case was born as a slave and owned by a man named Dr. John Emerson, who was in the army. Scott could have pettitioned for his freedom but he did not know he could. Scott tried buying his freedom from Mrs. Emerson but she refused. Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States because he was not white. -
Lincoln and Douglas Debate
Abraham Lincoln was nominated to run again Stephen A. Douglas for his senate seat by Illinois legislature. -
John Brown
John Brown's attempt in 1859 was to start a liberation movement among slaves in Harpers Ferry. Brown was hung after his attempt to start a slave rebellion in 1859, church bells rang, minute guns were fired, large memorial meetings took place throughout the North and famous writers such as Emerson and Thoreau joined many Northerners in praising Brown. -
Election of 1860
Almost half a century, the issues of slavery, abolition, free state and slave state and popular sovereignty on issues had been on news and peoples minds throughout the country. Northern Democrats insisted on a planform that called for popular sovereighnty to determine whether a state was to be a free of a slave state. Northern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge vice president to James Buchanan. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Texas recieved money west of the Rio Grande. No law was made for most of the territory from Mexico. Slave catures did not have to prove if a black man found in the North was a runaway slave or not.
