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missori compromise
Missouri is granted as a slave state -
free soil party
a short lived political party in the U.S.that opposed the expansion of slavery -
compromise of 1850
California is admitted as a free state and utah and new mexico territories are created from it. -
uncle toms cabin
an anti slavery novel written in 1852 that suposidly helped lay the ground work for the civil war. -
kansas-nebraska act
A bill issued in 1854 to allow settlers to decide if settlers wanted to allow slavery. -
bleeding kansas
the violent period of time when kansas was first settling. -
The Dred scott case
a case about a slave who was living in a free state/territory and was completly denied his freedom.