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Missouri compromise
Slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel excluding Missouri -
The Compromise of 1850
The final compromise to have the north and the south happy. -
Fugitive Slave Act
increased tensions as it obligated northerners to assist in the apprehension of escaped slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book that made people to rethink about slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People voted on Kansas and Nebraska to be a free or slave state -
Bleeding Kansas
approximately 56 people died and both the slaveholders and anti slaves close by came down to vote -
Brooks- Sumner Incident
Charles Sumner gave a speech that made Preston Brooks hit him with a walking cane -
the Lincoln Douglas debates
The debates between Lincoln and Douglas about slavery helped Lincoln build a reputation from the west -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Brown sparked a slave uprising and cause a violent raid. Brown was captured and hanged. -
The Secession Crisis
Slave states tarted leaving the union starting with South Carolina -
Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union in New York City
Lincoln gave a speech that made him overnight star. It helped him become a nominee for president and won the Republican nomination for president -
The Election of 1860: Lincoln, the Anti-Slavery Candidate, Takes the White House
Lincoln wins the election going against 3 opponents and no slave state voted for him. The slave states threaten to leave the Union if Lincoln won. -
Lincoln's First Inaugural Dealt With an Impending National Crisis
In the speech Lincoln tried to show the south that he means no harm but the south took it as a challenge to go to war -
President James Buchanan
President Buchanan spend four agonizing months trying to govern a nation coming apart, he was the last president before the union split up and tired his best to keep the Union together -
The Attack on Fort Sumter
It was the start of Civil war