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The Missouri Compromise
*Henry Clay was the Compromiser
*Solved the problem of Slavery in the West
*With the exception of Missouri, a line was drawn at 36'30' and every state that was excepted into the U.S beneath that line was a Slave state and every state excepted into the U.S above that line was a Free state -
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The Civil War Timeline
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The Nullification Crisis
*Southern states were angry about the tariffs the goverment had passed
*John C Calhoun thought that it was fair to allow states the right to nullify an unfair law
*South Carolina threatened to seceed because they goverment refused their argument
*Henry Clay came up with the compromise to lower the tariffs -
Fugitive Slave Act
*Henry Clay passed this law to allow the compromise of 1850 to pass
*Any African American's that had escaped to the North were permitted by the goverment to be captured and sent back to the South
*These laws incresed the tension between the North and South -
Compromise of 1850
*Henry Clay created the compromise of 1850
*Congress was debating over the territories admitted into the country after the Mexican-American War
*The compromise stated that California would be a free state and that the territory of New Mexico had no restrictions on Slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
*5000 Proslavery and Anti-Slavery supporters all moved to Kansas after the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed to decide whether or not the state would be free or slave
*Violence broke out between the parties and incresed the tension between North and South
* Also during this time is was when John Brown and his supporters murdered several Proslavery supporters in support of Abolition -
Dred Scott Decision
*Dred Scott sued the supreme court to gain his freedom
*Scott lost the court case because 7 out of 9 of the supreme court justices ruled that he was a slave and was not a U.S citiizen, which also meant that he could not sue the supreme court
*The Court case incresed the political tensions between northern and southern politicians -
The Attack on Harpers Ferry
*John Brown lead the raid
*Brown wanted slaves to be able to fight for there freedom, so he and his men attacked the army base of Harpers Ferry to arm the slaves
*John Brown and his men were captured and 10 were killed
*This inspired Abolitionists to fight for anti-slavery with force -
Election of 1860
*Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860 and becomes the President of the United States
*After Lincoln becomes president; the southern states start to seceed from the U.S
