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Wilmot Proviso
This bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories taken from Mexico. The bill passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate thus causing a division in Congress. Although, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party. -
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The Nation Breaking Apart
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Compromise of 1850
A series of congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreement between free states and slave states. People celebrated it, believed that it saved the Union, but it would'nt bring peace. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residants the right to decide whether to allow slavery. Few people realized that the act would soon turn Kansas into battle ground over slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas territory, to vote for the territorial ledgislature. There were more proslavery settlers then antislavery settlers in the territory. -
Caning of Sumner
Senater Charles Sumner's speech attacks proslavery forces in Kansas makes fun of A.P. Butler, southerners cheer Brook's defence of the south. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against . -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
Brown and 18 followers, 13 whites and 5 blacks captured Harpers Ferry Oresenal. They killed 4 people in the raid. Brown then sent out the word to rally and arm local slaves. -
Election of 1860
The election turns into 2 races , north and south. Lincoln wins north and John wins the south. South views Lincoln as a treath to their way of live. -
Secession
Soth Caroline dicides to secede withdrawls from the Union. 6 more southerners follow them.
