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Wlimot Proviso
The 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. Altoough, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party. -
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Nation Breaking Apart
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Compromise of 1850
This Compromise was to try and please both the North and South. The way it tried to please the North was, admitting California as a free state. And in the South , Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico, and Congress would pass a law to help slaveholders capture their runaway slaves. -
Kanas - Nebraska Act
Problems between the North and South with the issue of slavery in territories brought to a bloodshed to the West. which later led to Popular Sovertiy. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was caused by an election for anit and proslavery voters. The main leader or motivater for abolitionists was John Brown. -
Dred scott vs C canford
A rulnig that people of Africa descent brough into the USA and held as slaves were not protected by constitution and were not US citizen! -
attack of Harpers ferry
A attepmt by white abolistionists John Brown to start an armed slave revolt however was deafeated by the US army. -
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, working to punish the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen. -
The eletion of 1860
the nation ahd been divided throghout the 1850s whithin few monts of the elction seven states responded with a seccion
