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Wilmot Provlso
To appease the North,this bill proposed making all land won from Mexico free . South Congressmen angrily blocked the bill from becoming law . -
Mexican War
All compromise over slavery in this new land would fail . Sectionalism between the North and South would be free or slave .The war brought in new land that both the North and South wanted to influence . -
California Gold Rush
When gold was found by James W.Marshall at Sutter's Mill in California . In September ,1850,California became a state as part of the Compromise of 1850 . -
Compromise of 1850
This determined the status of the land from the Mexican Cession including California . It was proposed by Henry Clay,who had before developed the Missouri Compromise .South received-a stronger fugitive slave state to catch runaways in the South . -
Fugitive Slave Act
This law became the controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 . It forced northerners to aid slave catches .Blacks were falsely identified as runaways,denied jury trials,and kidnapped to the South as slaves .The North and South became more divided over slavery . -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The book was graphic and made slavery look terrible . Northerners who had been indifferent toward slavery began to hate slavery.The North and South became more divided over slavery . -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was repealed .North received California became a free state .The compromise of 1850 eased sectional tension for a short time . -
The Republican Party
They joined together to form the Republican Party ,which existed in the North . Southerners saw Republican in the north as a threat to slavery . -
Kansas -Nebraska Act
The South worried because this land was above the 36 30 line (where slavery was banned ). The Missouri Compromise was repealed . The Midwest was divided into a Kansas -Nebraska territory . -
"Bleeding Kansas "
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian". -
Charles Summer caned In the State
"The Crime Against Kansas " the speech ,made in the Senate by Sumner,denounced slave states,especially South Carolina . Preston Brooks , a congressman from South Carolina,nearly beating Sumner to death with a cane .The North was outraged and the South was happy . -
Dred Scott vs . Standford
The Supreme Court made a ruling about slavery in the West . Dred Scott,a slave,was taken by his owner into a free territory . Scott sued and argued that this meant he was not free . -
John's Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown and his followers seized a federalrsenal at Harper's Ferry ,Virginia. Brown intended to smuggle military weapons to the South and start a major slave rebellion . Brown was stopped,captured,and exeuted . -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Republicans did not want slavery to expand to the West .Lincoln was not an abolitionist ,but also did not want slavery to expand . Southerners saw Lincoln as an enemy and would not even put his name on the ballot . -
Battle at Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War.
