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Missouri Compromise
Allowed Missouri as a slave state and Maine would become a free state. It would later be replaced in 1854 by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Part of the Compromise of 1850. It stated that northern states had to return runaway slaves back to the south. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is an anti-slaver novel. Many believed that it was a main cause of the civil war. One of these people was Abraham Lincoln. -
Bloody Kansas
When it was declared that Kansas would be able to choose if they were free or not, pro-slavery people moved to Kansas to sway the decision. There was fighting between those who were for and those who were against slavery. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
Brooks had attacked Sumner with his cane. He thought that a disservice was being done to Kansas. They had clashing views -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was the republican candidate and John C. Breckinridge was the democratic candidate. Lincoln won the election with 180 electoral votes.
