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The Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromise was a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
It stated that Missouri was a slave state but slave holders couldnt take there slaves passed 36' 30'. -
Wilmont Proviso
The Wilmont Proviso was a bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might acquire from the war with mexico. The wilmont proviso led to the free-soil party, which was a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a series of congressional laws inteened to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. Which led to the Fugtive slave act. The compromise of 1850 was lead by Henry Clay. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It was a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. The book was widely popular in the North but white southerners belived the book falsely criticized the South and slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
It was an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their resdients the right to decide whether to allow slavery. Popular soverighty was the way they would decide how to rule a state free or slave. -
Sack of Lawrence
A proslavery mob attackted the town of lawrence Ks the attackers destroyed offices and the house of a governor of the antislavery government. It led to the Pottawatomie massacre. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
The Pottawatomie Massacre was led by John Brown and 7 other men. They went to the cabins of several of his proslavery neighbors and murdered 5 people. It helped give Ks the term Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
In 1856 Supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken in to live in territories where slavery was illegal the court ruled against him. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 turned into two diffrent races for the presidency, one in the North and one in the South. Lincoln ans Douglas where the candiates in the North and Breckinridge and bell where candiates for the South. Lincoln won the presidency. -
South Carolins Seceding from the Union
They seeced after lincoln won the presidency. In the next six weeks Mississippi,Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas formed the confederate states of America. Jefferson Davis was the presisent.
