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The Events that Lead up to the Civil War
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The Three Fifths Compromise
The Three Fifths Compromise ment that one slave represenative was 3/5 of one person. -
The Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional convention is where when the Articles of Confederation was too weak and when they realised that the also realised that they would need a new document .So they had a convention that had delegates come and help write the new document called the Constitution. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise is where Missouri was allowed to join as a slave state and Maine was allowed to join as a free state. -
The Comprimise of 1850
The Comprimise of 1850 allowed California to be a free state and Utah and Mexico were allowed to vote. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act ment that any northerners who found a fugitive slave was to turn them in or if caught with fugitives they would have concequences. -
The Kansas-Nabraska Act
The Kansas-Nabraska Act is when the country let people who lived in Kansas and Nabraska vote to see if those states would join as a free or slave state. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a secret organization that helped slaves to freedom, hid them on there journey, and sometimes some people escorted them to freedom (safe places for them to live). -
James Brown
James Brown helped alot of people from slavery.He got cought helping slaves and got hung by slave owners as his punishment. -
Abraham Lincoln
Bbraham Lincoln was elected president during slavery -
1861 The Southern States Declared Independince
1861 southern states declared independence and decided to form their own country. -
The Civil War
The Civil War took place because of the states disagreements over the states right.