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Missouri Compromise
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Wilmot Provosio
The Wilmot Proviso was to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might aqquire from the war with Mexico, because the North believed that the South wanted to take territory from Mexico in order to expand slavey. This act was never passed. this act created the Free Soil Party which were against slavery expanding this caused for tensions to expand. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a olan that pleased the North by admitting California as a free state, and slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. It also pleased the South by having the Congress not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the Territories won from mexico, and Congress would pass the Fugitive Slave Act. How The Compromise made the fugitive slave act possible which made the Notherners very mad which caused for tensions. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. It was a novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. the book was very popular when slavey was an issue and still is today. White southerns believed that this falsley criticized slavery, and this made tensions between the north and south even stronger. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A bill that was to organize the Nebraska Territory into two states It turned Kansas into a Battle ground over Slavery. -
Sack of Lawrence
A Pro-Slavery mob attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas. they destroyed officies and the house of the Governor of the Anti-Slavery Government. Anti-Slavery mobs, and People began to fight back. the Pottawatomie Massacre took place to get revenge on the Sack of Lawrence. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown and seven others went to the houses of his Pro-Slavery neighbors, and killled 5 people to avenge The Sack of Lawrence. As news of the violence spread, Pro-Slavery forces took act, and war broke out throughout Kansas. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The case of Dred Scott in which he sued for his Freedom, but Roger B. Taney said he wasn't eligible to sue cause he was not a U.S. Citizen. He also ruled that slaves are property. Many Notheners who were anti-slaver belived he should be able to sue, and thought the congress was foolish for saying slavers are property. -
Election of 1860
What the race for presidency in which Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Brekenridge all ran for President, and Abraham Lincoln won the Election. The Southeners thought Lincoln would try to abolish Slavery and began to secede from the Union -
South Carolina Seceding from the Union
It was the first state to Secede from the Union. They said that they had Voluntarily Joined the Union, so they had the right to lwave the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana. and Texas soon Joined. The Union was losing the South so it was Falling Apart.
