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Missouri Compromise
Kept the number of free and slave states equal while also creating a line to designate future free and slave states. This compromise only applied to the Louisiana Territory. -
Wilmot Proviso
To appease northerners, which was to make all land won from Mexico free. Pro-slavery congressmen made sure that this never passed. -
Compromise of 1850
California became a free state in the favor for the north while the south got the Fugitive Slave Act. The rest of the new land was divided into territories that decide on slavery on popular sovereignty. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
It was written by Harriet B. Stowe talking about slavery. It was a graphic book that made slavery look terrible which made the southerns mad and hate it. Abe Lincoln pretty much liked it. -
Fugitive Slave Act (Law)
Known as the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. This law forced northerners to aid slave catchers. Blacks were falsely identified as runaways, denied jury trials & kidnapped to the South as slaves. -
Republican Party Forms
Anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, & the Free-Soil party hated the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Due to that hatred, they joined together to form the Republican Party in the North. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act was meant to organize new northern states in the Midwest for a northern railroad. The Missouri Compromise was also repealed. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Abolitionists from the North & slave owners from the South poured into Kansas. Also, popular sovereignty failed because people in Kansas couldn't agree over slavery. -
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
The speech "The Crime Against" made by Sumner in the Senate House had denounced slave states. Preston Books felt offended so he nearly beat Sumner to death with a cane, -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
This was a case where slave, Dred Scott, was taken by his owner into free territory. Scott sued saying this meant that he was now free but the Supreme Court just ruled slavery could not be banned in any western territory. -
John Brown's Raid @ Harpers Ferry
John Brown & his followers seized a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. They intended to smuggle military weapons to the South and start a major slave rebellion but Brown was captured and executed. -
Abe Lincoln elected as President
Southerners had saw Lincoln as an enemy since he did not like or believe in slavery so they did not even put him name on the ballot. But in the end Lincoln won every state in the North & West so he therefore won the election. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
This fort was a Confederacy that Lincoln decided to resupply. South Carolina told them to surrender but they refused so SC bombed and captured Fort Sumter which led to the Civil War to begin.
