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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was created to decide which states would enter as free states and which would enter as slave states. The compromise worked for several years, but only put the problem to the side. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot presented a plan to stop the spread of slavery into territories won from Mexico and also made the South concerned in seeing the North's power. -
Free Soil Party
This was the FIRST party formed that was a “sectional party" and they picked Martin Van Buren as their first candidate for President. -
Compromise of 1850
A five part compromise brought up to better problems for a short period of time until they got worse. -
Fugitibe Slave Law
This was a law that required northerners to return slaves and would be fined greatly if they did not follow. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Was a novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe showing what happened to the saves and how they were treated. The northerners started to become even more concerened. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas sponsored a bill that said Kansas and Nebraska's slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereightny and this led to conflict due to pro-slavery and anti-slavery people living in the same area. -
POTTOWATOMI CREEK KILLINGS
A man named John Brown goes out at night, taking his four sons with him, and drags five men from their homes and murders them for believing in slavery. The North is appalled to hear this has happened. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a black man who started out as a slave living in a free territory and then moved to a slave state where his owner died. He went to the Supreme Court to be a free man, but lost and also stated that slavery could not be banned, angering the North and pleasing the South.
