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Missouri Compromise
To keep the senate equal Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
Making California a free state divided Mexico into New Mexico and Utah, ending the Washington slave trade. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act required all citizens to help catch slaves. Judges received money for sending slaves to the South. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Popular in the North the South thought it was an untrue image of slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to set up a government in the northwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase splitting it up into 2 parts. -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott filed a lawsuit. He was a slave after living in a free state because his master died. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Anti-slavery campaign from East to Kansas it was a plan to give guns to slaves. -
Election of 1860
South wanted to keep slavery so they took Abraham Lincoln off of the balet. Lincoln was still elected and the South was mad. -
South Carolina Secedes
After President Lincoln was elected states in the South seceded to create their government. South Carolina was the first then Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas seceded.