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The Missouri Comprimise
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Slavery Timeline
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This fairly comprehensive biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe also offers some analysis of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Of particular interest is the mention of how the novel was caricaturized in the 1800s and fell out of favor as a result. Report broken link. Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Formation of Free-Soil Party
Bipartisan, antislavery Party founded in the United States, In the U.S. to keep slavery out western teritories . -
Comprimise of 1850
Agreement over slavery by wicth California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was pased. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow. -
The 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 Kansas
bleeding Kansas, 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. -
Derd Scott Case
Dred Scott decision definition. A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master -
John Brown's Raid
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery -
The Election of 1860
he United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.