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Missouri compromise
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time. -
Compromise off 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September -
Figurative slave act
he act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters. -
dred scott case
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
John Brown raid
helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important impetus of the Civil War. -
election of 1860
In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes. -
South Carolina seceeds
increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery.