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Compromise of 1850
California's admission as a free states -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Bleeding Kansas
A war between North and South over slavery in the United States. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Territories will determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory -
Dred Scott VS. Sanford
Decision says the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories, and that blacks (both slave and free) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens -
Attack on Harper's Ferry
An attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt -
Lincoln Election
Lincoln is elected as President -
Southern State Sucession
Led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the civil war -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Start of the Civil War -
Anaconda Plan
The blockade of Southern ports, and the advancement down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.
