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The Missouri Compromise
An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal. -
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Slavery
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Formation of Free-Soil Party
Bipartisan, antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories. -
Compromise of 1850
Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An 1852 novel byHarriet Beecher Stowe written to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery. -
Formation of Republican Party
Political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
More than 200 people had been killed. So the newspapers started to call the territory "Bleeding Kansas." -
John Brown's Raid
John was a abolitionist. He and his four sons and two other men to the town of Pottawatomie Creek. In the middle of the night, they dragged five proslavery settlers from their beds and murdered them. -
Dredd Scott Case
An 1857 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom and lost; case brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was about who would win the election between Lincoln and John Bell.