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Underground Railroad
More INFOA network of peple that helped runaway slaves escape to the North and to Canada -
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Mexican American War
For a simple animated versionA United States Victory ultimitley gaining all sorts of new land and earing more respect from other countries. Ended with the Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
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Fugitive Slave Act
The actual act/lawThe Law stated that a slveholder/catcher had only to point out alleged runaways to have them taken into custody.
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Compromise of 1850
Timeline of the compromiseA package of five bills passed that ended the four-year confrontation of the slave states and free states that were gained after the Mexican-American War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Infoit was a book writen for the promotion of equility and promise of freedom between ALL men in America. Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
InfoAn act that allowed the territories to decide on their own if they wanted to have slavery in their own boundries. -
Ostend Manifesto
InfoA document explaining that we should buy Cuba and if Spain disagrees we should declare war -
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Bleeding Kansas
InfoA time of violence in Kansas. The fights were trying to come to if Kansas should have slaves or not. -
Canning of Charles Sumner
For more information on CHarles SumnerAfter blaming a Senator for the death of his abolitionist friends. Sumner was attcked by the Senator's cousin, Preston Brooks, with a cane severly injurying him -
Dred Scott Decesion
InfoA decesion made by the Supreme Court stateing that a slave or slave descendant can become a citizen. The South agreed and The North was disgusted.
