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The 3/5 Compromise
http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/07/the-constitution-and-that-35-compromise/ this was a time when slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person and so that gave the population number a big boost because it wasent all just whites now it was the slaves too. -
Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-enacts-first-fugitive-slave-law this act was passed that meant that everybody that had found a slave that had escaped from his master must be returned to his master -
The Missouri Compromise
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm it was when Missouri wanted to become a slave state but then they had to keep the slave states and slave free states balanced so they said that Missouri could be a slave state but then Maine had to become a slave free state and they were ok with that. -
Compromise of 1850
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=27 you could not buy or sell slaves anymore because it was illegal in dc to do so. and if you did find a runaway slave you had to return it to its master or be jailed and or fined with alot of money. -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uncle-toms-cabin-is-published this was when a book came out that had sold 300,000 copies and it made a bunch of people become anti slavery people and it made them think twice about slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html this was when the government allowed the people in the state to decide if the state would be a slave state or a slave free state but then everybody moved there and then there was all kind of war because people wanted slaves and some others didnt. -
Scott decision
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html was when derd scott went to the supreme court and sued them for his freedom but then they said that if a slave is to become free he will never be an actual cititzen so they can not go to court at all. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html james brown was going to raid slaveowners and assist the slaves on escaping the owners and then come along with him and help him with this "war" that he had money and supplies for. -
election of 1860
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/99_00/cw/dms/dms.htm it was the election when Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and bad stuff was already beginning to happen even bofore he was officially president or in his office.
