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Slavery timeline
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Missouri Compromise
It is a balance in power with the Congress. It was admitting it as a slave state. -
Formation of Free-Soil party
It was something for anti-slavery, and had certain members. -
Compromise of 1850
Which defused a four year ploitical conformation between slave and free states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ws the most popular 19th century novel and, after the Bible, was the second-best-selling book of that century. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories, and opening new lands for settlement. -
Formation Republican Party
By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. -
Bleeding Kansas
Was a series of violent political confrontations, United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery -
Dred-Scott Case
Who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry") was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The polls had barely closed on the 1858 election when Jeriah Bonham wrote an editorial for the Illinois Gazette predicting the candidates for the 1860 presidential nomination: “Douglas will lead the cohorts of slavery.