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missouri
agreement proposed in 1819by henry clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal -
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slavery timeline
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Free soil
bipartisan antislavery party founded in the us to keep slavery out of the wetern teritories -
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 toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
kansas nebraska act
an 1854 a
law that established the teritories of nebraska and kansas giving the settlers the right of popular sovereighnty to decisde the issue of slavery -
formation of republican party
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
bleeding kansaas
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. -
dred scott
Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
john browns raid
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia -
election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.