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Wilmot Proviso.
This bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories taken from Mexico.The bill passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate thus causing a division in Congress. Although,not a succes 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 four-step compromise which admitted California as a free state, allowed the resident of New Mexico and Utah territories to decide the slavery issue themselves. It also endedslave trade in Columbia.The law also included the Fugitive Slave Act , which slave owners could come to North and take runaway slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Law that passes that created Kansas and Nebraska Territories and leaving the question of slavery open to residents. It also repeated the Missouri Compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
Intense local warfare erupts between pro and anti-slavery settlers. Walt Whitman anonymously publishes , Leaves of Grass. -
Caning of sumner
James and John Breckenridge are elected president and vice president .( democratic party) -
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Supreme Court holds that Congress has no powerto regulate slavery in the territories, that African American are not citizens , and residence in free territory does not confer. -
Attack on Hrapers Ferry
John Brownis raid on Harpers Ferry Brown leads a group of whites and blacks attack Federal arsenal. Brown is tried for Conspiracy and then hunged. -
Election of 1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln elected President he wins with a clear majority of electoral votes but only a plurality of the popular votes.He defeats Breckenridge,Douglas and Bell. Hannibal Hamlin is his vice-president. -
Secession