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Events That Caused The Civil War
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The compramise of 1850
Introduced by Henry Clay, It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty -
Harriet tubman
Harriet tubman begins freing slaves via underground rail roadfreeing over 300 slaves -
Fugative slave Act
Slave hunters were allowed to capture an escapee in any territory or state and were required only to confirm orally before a state or federal judge that the person was a runaway. This caused the northoners to not save slaves -
Uncle toms cabin
This is a book written by harriet beccher stowe. It is an anti slavery book that sold very well nationaly. It brought the subject of slaver in a bad light so that everyone witnessed it. -
Gadsen Purchase
the United States obtained the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. The area totaled 45,535 square miles -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory -
Bleeding Kansas
The North and the South both went to Kansas territory for the majority vote for that territory.conflicts broke out and blood was shed in multiple battles. -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom -
John brown
Anit slavery. He was willing to die for his cause.His sons died and he is in prison and is sentenced to death. He died on December 2,1859 fighting for no slavery -
Presiden Lincoln
This angered slavery pro people
