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The Nation Breaking Apart
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Compromise Of 1850
A series of congressional laws intend to settle the major disagreement between free states and slave states. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
An1854 law that establish the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right whether to allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and antislavery sottlers rush into Kansas territory, antislavey attacked abolitionist John Brovn rotalitos by murdering 5 proslavory people. then a civil war broke out. -
Caning on Summer
Sonater Charles sunnor's speech attacks proslavory forces in Kansas. A relative of buttlers, Proston Brooks, attacks summer in Sonato. Southerners cheer Brooks defence of the South. -
Attack Of Harpers Ferry
In 1859 John Brown led a party of 21 menin a succesful attack on the federal armony at Harpers Ferry. Brown haoped that his action would encourage slaves to join his rebellion. -
Election of 1860
The campaign of 1860 demonstrated that a national political system was no longer operating. The contest was actually two elections, one in the North and one in the South. In the North, the Lincoln and Douglas forces vied for victory, in the South the contest was between Breckinridge and Bell. The sections were insulated from each other. Lincoln did not even appear on the ballot in most southern states, and only in a few northern states did Breckinridge muster any discernible support.
