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Slavery Timeline
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Missouri Compromise
agreement to keep the number of slave and free sates equal. -
Formation of Free-Soil Party
parties founded to in the U.S.in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories. -
Compromise of 1850
agreement over slavery in which California joined the union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed. -
uncle tom's cabin
it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. -
formation of republican party
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by a group of renegade Democrats, Whigs, and political independents who opposed the expansion of Slavery into new U.S. territories and states. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
a law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery. -
dred scott case date
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
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. -
election of 1860
American presidential election