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Wilmont Proviso
would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession
It failed but south is concerned -
Compromise of 1850
was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. The Compromise of 1850 did accomplish what was intended at the time, as it held the Union together. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Book about ending slavery Raised awarness about the wrongs of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People in the new territories could vote whether to have slavery. Led to the events called Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
Peope Flooding into Kansas to vote on slavery,This caused small civil wars in Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
Slave that sued for his freedom
African American were not citizens therfore could not sue,they were property.
Increased tensions between north and south -
Lincoln Douglass Debates
They had debates about slavery,Lincoln said slavery was wrong but legal.
Lincoln lost election,but became nationally famous. -
Harpers Ferry
Raid on Harper
John Brown led it
Stirup a slave revolt in Virgina and end slavery Became a martyr in the cause of slavery -
Election of 1860
presidental elction of 1860,voters voted for there section of country,Lincoln promised to keep slavery out of new Territories
South would secede if Lincoln was elected. Lincoln won and south created Confederate States of America -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter first battle of civil war
North sending supplies to and South fired on them. Begining of Civil War
