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Fugitive Slave Laws
The act allowed for the recovery of runaways slaves and authorized the arrest or seizure of fugitives. -
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Road to the Civil War
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Wilmot Proviso
Designed to elminate slavery within the land. As a result of the Mexican War this was called Wilmot Proviso. -
The 31st Congress of 1849
Congress reviewed the fugitive slave act and there were threats of Southern Secession withdrawl a state from the union. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland. She reportedly returned to the South 19 times and brought out more than 300 slaves -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay had a compromise northerners and southerners, the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slave novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe called Uncle Tom's Cabin. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress and thus overturns the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations about the fugitive slave laws. Sac of St. Lawrence was an event where 800 men went to destroy the town of Lawerence. -
Beating of Senator Charles Sumner
Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner for a speech he gave, the beating almost killed him. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into Western territories. -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown started an arm revolt by seizng Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected President. -
South Carolina Seccedes from the Union
South Carolina succeeds from Union as well as Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
