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U.S Constitution
Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states United States Constitution: the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention -
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Politics of Slavery Timeline Roshan
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Missouri Comprimise
Senate admits Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
Comprimise of 1850
Five laws passed in 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Repealed Missouri Compromise allowing slavery in the northern territories 36, 30 degrees latitude. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who was taken out of the Southern states with his slave owner into states that a state that had laws, which stated slaves brought in, would be freed. Scott sued but lost because as being an African American, he had no rights. -
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown briefly seized a U.S arsenal on Harpers Ferry to assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slave holders during the civil war. -
election of 1860
Four candidates were nominated. The Republicans had their forst candidate in 1856, was opposed to the expansion of slavery: Abraham Lincoln, he was seen as a moderate on slavery . Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas. while the Southern held their own convention in Richmond and nominated vice president John Bleckinridge for president. The Constitutional Union Party before the election nominated John Bell, he carried Virginia and Breckinridge had the most votes in Western Virginia. -
Bleeding Kansas
series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery -
Emancipation Proclimation
"all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."