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Missouri Compromise
Regulated Slavery, created the 36' 30' line. -
Mexican War
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. -
Wilmot Proviso
Appeased northerners, making all land won from Mexico free. Congressmen made sure it never passed. -
California Gold Rush
More and more people traveled to California, as the population grew, California requested to be a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
Determined the status of the land from the Mexican Cession, including California. -
Fugitive slave law
A part of the compromise of 1850, allowed slave honors to catch "Run away slaves" -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was about slavery, showing the Cruelness of it, the south banned it. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Republican party forms
The whigs, democrats, and free soil part disliked the Kansas-Nebraska act, they formed the republican party. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Abolitionist and slave owners went to kansas, there was a civil war. John Brown killed five slave owners. -
Charles Sumner caned in the senate
Preston Brooks almost beat Charles Sumner to death with his cane. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
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. -
John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
John brown and others tried to start a slave rebellion slave in the south he was killed. -
Abraham Lincoln elected president
He wanted to preserve the union, that led to trying to end slavery, he was assassinated. -
Southern states begin to secede
South felt they know longer had any power, and began to become their own country. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Fort sumter was bombed by South Carolina.
