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Misourri Compromise
Missouri Compromise- added Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It added new views and cuased disputes. It kept the balance between free states and slave states in the Senate. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
A group of African Americans that killed every white person they saw. Nat thought God called him to do that. That shows that the slaves had a hard life and were traeted were poorly. -
Wilmot Proviso
Soon after the Mexican war began, David Wilmot, introduced a propsal. The Wilmot Proviso would ban slavery in any lands that might be capurted from Mexico. Southerners protested against the Wilmot Proviso. -
Compromise of 1850
With the backing of President Taylor, California applied to be a free state in 1849. The main problem was that if California joined as a free state the slave states would be out voted in the Senate. Henry Clay came up with a proposal, if California entered as a free state, the rest of the new territories would have no limits on slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Senetaor Henry Clay conviced the Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act. The act required all citizens to help catch run away slaves. If you adided or didn't help capture the fugitives you would be fined or sent to jail. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act brought in Kansas and Nebraska and by popular sovernighty let the people choose if they were going to be a free state or a slave state. Bleeding Kansas helped pave the way for the Civil War. -
Dred-Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave, that lived in Missouri, a slave state, then he moved to a free state. Then he moved to the Wisconsin Terriorty which banned slavery, later they moved back to Missouri where his slave owner died. In 1846 anti-slavery lawyers helped Scott and claimed that he should be free becuase he once lived in a free state. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court where he was ruled that he was still an inslaved persom. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown, an abolionist, led a group of people to raid Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His target was an arsenal, so he could give guns to enslaved African Amercians so they cold start a revolt. Brown was charged with treason and murder, and was sentenced to hanging. After Brown, the South was frightened by the North, further spilting the nation apart. -
Lincoln's Election
Licoln was a Republican running agianst Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. People consider Douglas as a likely canidate for President in 1860. Lincoln was nearly unknown. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was a fort on an island guarding Charleston Harbor. The day after Lincoln was put into office, he got a letter saying that the fort was short on suppilies and the Confederates demanded that they surender. Lincoln sent an unarmed expidition to deliver supplies. Jefferson Davis attacked the fort before the supplies could arrive. Fort Sumter surrendered after just two days of fighting and there was no loss of life.
