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Missorri Compromise
The Missori Compromise was when their was controvery of Missori being a free state or a slave state..This was the first controvery over slavery(notes in Mr.Baker's class) -
Free Soil Party
A group of people who were like a third party of eletions and issues on slavery. -
Harriet Tubman's underground railroad
Harriet Tubman led slaves to the north for freedom. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
Slaves were escaping to the north, but if anyone expects of a runaway slave, they could turn them in for money. -
The Compromise of 1850
After the defeat of Mexico, the United States made many more terrortorites in the land. The problem was if the new states could be free or slave states. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
A anti-slavery novel made that helped ground the civil war. -
Kansas-Nebraksa Act
This was an event about while the country was moving westward, the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska were under debate of the statea being free states or slave states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a period of bloodshed of the seperation of the country. Basically it was anti-slavery versus pro-slavery groups. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Dred Scott wanting freedon due to the death of his slave owner. Wth out warning, he was still a slave no matter what. Scott was unable to sue and satnd for his rights. -
The Election of 1860
This was the election of the next president. Abraham Lincoln won the presidenty from the republican party. But the south wanted to rebell based on the beliefs of Lincon trying to abolish Slavery. From there the civil war begun. -
The Civil War Begins
Ends in 1865.
