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compromise of 1850
Five bills that were made to hold off fights between the slave states and free states. The north and south were worried about who would get the territory from the Mexican war. It eld of the Civil war for a few years -
Publication of Uncle Toms Cabin
An anti slavery novel by Harriet Stowe that heped lay the ground work for the Civil War. Uncle Tom is a character in the book; the novel talks about the reality of slavery. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas - Nebraska was a territory that wanted to become states ,but they couldnt decide if it was going to be a free or a slave state. It was decided by "popular Soverienty" ,which means the people living there vote. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was a "Border War" between anti slave and slave states in the Kansas territory. THis set the stage for the Kansas Nebraska Act. -
Brooks/Sumner Affair
Pro-slavery congressman Preston Brooks attacked antislavery Senator Charles Sumner on floor of Senate. This was right before the Civil War -
Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court voted on if people of the african desent come into the US that they are not a citizen or protected by the US constitution. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown's raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, happened in order to get weapons for arming a slave uprising in Virginia. -
Election of 1860
Had an election for the VP or President. In this case Abraham Lincoln was elected. US votes.
