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Missouri compromise
South and north are fighting over slavery when Henry clay steps in and proposes the great compromise. The Missouri compromise was a series of laws that helps maintain the balance between slave states and free states. -
Missouri Compromise 1820, March 3
Debating from the north and south and the south doesn't want to pay for tarrifs because the north doesn't -
Uncle Tom's cabin
They had a big debate after the war of Mexico and people worried if the new states would have slavery to -
Compromise of 1820
there were many heated arguments in congress debated weather if the land from the Mexican compromise should be free states or slave states. Henry clay came up with the idea that calli would be free and congress couldn't ban slave states -
Fugitive slave act
Fugitive slave act was passed in 1850 by the congress. The act permitted the capture of African Americans who had fled to the north to escape bondage. The laws heightened tensions and set the stage for John Brown's raid and the American civil war. -
Bleeding Kansas
5000 people from Missouri illigally came and voted for proslavery. Anti slavery opponents started their own government, the anti slavery gov was attacked by pro slavery forces, then to avenge this attack, extreme abolitionist John brown murdered several of his pro slavery neighbors. -
Dread Scott decision
Dred was a man who sues for his freedom. The courts ruled and declared that he wasn't free because of his residence, African Americans were not considered citizens when the coast was drafted, and dred was property of his owner. -
Attack on Harper's Ferry October 16, 1859
John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for there freedom. -
Election of 1860
After Lincoln won the election southern states becan to secede fro the union.
