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Wilmost Poviso
This bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territiories 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 success it led to the formation of the Free soil act. -
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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. -
kansas-nebraska act
An 1854 law that established the territories of kansas and nebraska and gave their residents the right whether to allow slavery. -
bleeding kansas
Proslavery and antislavery settlers rush into kansas territory, antislavery attacked. abolitionist John Brown rotates by murdering 5 proslavery people. then a civil war brakes out. -
Dred Scott v. sandford
Dred Scott, a slave was taken by his master to a free state, than his owner died was sold to another slave owner, he filed a lawsuit saying if I was living in a free state than I shoukd not be a slave, the court argued, your not a citizen and are a african american, your not allowed to sue anyways. -
Caning of Sumner
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered a speech attacking the pro slavery forces in Kansas. His speech was packed with insults. Sumner even made of A.P. Butler, a senator from South Carolina.
Preston Brooks, a relative of Butler heard about the speech. To defend Butler he started to hit Sumner on the head with his cane until it broke. -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
Brown and 18 followers- 13 whites and 5 blacks- captured the Harpers Ferry arsenal. They killed four people in the raid. Brown then sent out the word to rally and arm local slaves. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 turned into two different races for the presidency, one in the north and in the South. Lincoln and Douglas were the only candidates with much support in the North, Bechinridge and Bell competed for southern votes.
