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  Regulated Slavery, created the 36' 30' line.
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  Northerners and Abolitionists opposed to this war, there was a 4 part plan to it, it was to capture Santa Fe, capture California, Invade from the north, and capture Mexico City.
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  Appeased northerners, making all land won from Mexico free. Congressmen made sure it never passed.
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  More and more people traveled to California, as the population grew, California requested to be a free state.
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  Determined the status of the land from the Mexican Cession, including California.
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  A part of the compromise of 1850, allowed slave honors to catch "Run away slaves"
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  Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was about slavery, showing the Cruelness of it, the south banned it.
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  The whigs, democrats, and free soil part disliked the Kansas-Nebraska act, they formed the republican party.
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  Abolitionist and slave owners went to kansas, there was a civil war. John Brown killed five slave owners.
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  Preston Brooks almost beat Charles Sumner to death with his cane.
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  The supreme court made a ruling about slavery in the west, Dred Scott had been took to a free stated and argued that he was free.
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  John brown and others tried to start a slave rebellion slave in the south he was killed.
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  He wanted to preserve the union, that led to trying to end slavery, he was assassinated.
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  South felt they know longer had any power, and began to become their own country.
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  Fort sumter was bombed by South Carolina.