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The Missouri Compromise
The Congress agreed that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/triggerevents.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
A slave named Nat Turner incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. Around two hundred slaves were lynched by frenzied mobs. Virginia reacted to the rebellion by rolling back what few civil rights slaves and free black people possessed at the time. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner -
The Compromise of 1850
The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The novel Harriet Stowe wrote that explained slave's life. It caused a cultural sensation https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml -
Bleeding Kansas
The Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which limited slave's rights, causing anger among slaves http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
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John Brown's Raid
Brown cut his teeth as an anti-slavery activitist. He tried to raid a government arsenal inVirginia in order to free the slaves. Eventually he was sent to prison for the crime of treason. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32c.asp -
Abraham Lincoln's election
Abraham Lincoln supported an anti-slavery outlook. He attempted to give slaves more rights, which was ignored by many Southerners. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Several federal forts became outpost in a foreign land. Lincoln sent troops to the beleaguered garrisons. The garrison surrendered on April 14.
