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Missouri compromise
the Missouri compromise were a series of laws helped maintain the balance between slave state and free states -
the nullification crisis
any state could nullify a federal law it considers unconstitional -
compromise of 1850
congress would not pass laws banning slavery from the rest of the territories won from Mexico -
Fugitive slave act
The act permitted the capture of African Americans who fled to the north to escape bondage -
bleeding Kansas
5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in kansas illegaly -
Dred scott decision
dred Scott was the property of his owner and property could not be taken from person with out due process of law -
attack on harpers ferry
abolitionists a lured John brown as he was out to death the issue of slavery had raised tensions in America to the breaking point. -
The election of 1860
Southerners states begin to seced from the union shortly after Lincoln is elected
