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Missouri Compromise
A compromise which divided the contry in half so that every state over a certain line was a slave free state, and every state below was a slave state -
Compromise of 1850
It was a series of laws making California a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in America's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., but making it easier for southerners to recover runaway slaves. -
Kansas/Nebraska Act
North wanted a route for a railroad, and southern senator wanted support, so they made a deal -
Bleeding Kansas
The northerners and southerners fought for votes -
Sumner Brooks Incident
Sumner was talking bad about brooks' cousin, so brooks beat sumner with a cane -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown, Psyco Maniac who chopped people up went on a rampage against slave owners. He wanted to get all the slaves in their own colony and then kill the white slave owners. Later hanged
