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Missouri Compromise
Congress"s attempt to even out the free and slave states when Missouri wanted to become a state. Missouri was added as a slave state and main was added as a free state and the 36 30 line was created. -
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Mexican American War
War between Mexico and the U.S where American won and took control of modern day California and New Mexico favored south -
Wilmot Proviso
At conclusion of the Mexican American War.A unsuccessful attempt by the U.S congress to ban slavery in the new acquired territories. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Part of the compromise of 1850, A strict law regarding runaway slaves. Passed to counter act California becoming a free state -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay's proposal replaced the Missouri compromise with the edition of more states to the union to further calm the growing tensions with slave and free states -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book published by abolitionist to show people i the country the poor treatment and brutality of slavery in the south -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Passed to repeal the Missouri compromises 36 30 line and to let Kansas and Nebraska territory's chose if they want to be slave or free states -
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Bleeding Kansas
Violent confrontations between anti slave people and slave owners in the Kansas territory Also known as the boarder wars didn't favor any side -
Charles Sumner Attack
Representative Preston Brookes canned Senator Charles Sumner in his chambers in congress which furthered tensions between the dividing country -
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Dred Scott v Sandford
Th federal Court decided that Americans of African decent were not citizens and could not sue in federal court and also decide that congress could not ban slavery in territories Favored the South -
Lecompton Constituition
It contained clauses protecting slave holders and a bill of rights excluding free blacks favored the south -
Lincoln Douglass Debates
A series of 7 heated debates between Republican representative Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglass -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown tried to initiate and armed slave revolt by taking over a U.S arsenal at Harpers Ferry but were defeated Favored by North -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
After the election of Abraham Lincoln the South Carolina feared that their way of life would be taken so they split from the Union and created their own confederacy and asked other states to follow favored the south -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860 in which Republican Abraham Lincoln won the presidency sparking the succession of the south -
Crittenden Compromise
the Crittenden Compromise was an attempt to stop the southern states from leaving the union but it failed -
Attack on Fort Sumter.
The attack on Fort Sumter was the bombing of Fort Sumter in Charleston by the Confederate Army, and the return gunfire and surrender by the Union Army, that started the Civil War