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missori compromise
plan proposes by henry clay to keep the number of slave and free
states equal admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as free
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compromise of 1850
compromise of 1850 agreement over slavery that admitted
california to the union as a free state, allowd populars over eighty
new mexico and utah, banned the slave trade in washington,D.C,
and passed a strict fugitive slave law. -
Kansas-nebraska act
law that divded nebraska into two territoies. provided for the question of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty. -
derd scott decioion
Supreme Court decision in 1857. stated that slave were property, not citizens. -
John Brown raid
in 1859, abolitionist john brown carried his campaign against slavery to the East -
election of 1860
soon after the republicans nominated lincoin, democrats held their convntion in charlestion south carolina. -
Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America nation formed by the states that seceded from the union in 1860 and 1861
