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Missouri Compromise
- North and South were debating over slavery.
- Henry Clay was the Great Compromiser. He resolved problems
- Maine was admitted as a fre state.
- Arkansas was able to have slaaves.
- Series of laws.
- The Missouri Compromise line was 36 30
- Made to balance free and slave states.
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The Nullification Crisis
- South Carolina doesnt like tariffs.
- Thought they were unfair.
- Supported South
- John C Calhoun was president.
- Any state can nullify.
- South Carolina's argument got denied.
- they threatened to secede from the union.
- a compromise made by Henry Clay lowered the tariffs.
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Compromise of 1850
-debates ran across the congress.
-won states from mexico
-would be either slave or free states
-Henry clay made a compromise
-the free state was California
-no other states won from Mexico were free -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
-congress passed this act
-could capture African Americans that escaped
-highered tension between abolitionist and people who wanted slaves
-helped John Browns Raid and the American civil war -
Bleeding Kansas
-5000 people came from Missouri and voted for pro slavery represenatives
- it was illegal
- a government was made by anti-slavery people
- it was attacked by pro-slavery forces
-John Brown (abolitionist) murdered his pro slavery neighbors -
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Bleeding Kansas
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Dred Scott Decision
-slave who lived in Illinois (free state)
-lived in Wisconsin (free state) before he moved back to MIssouri (slave state)
-no blacks can become a citizen of the U.S.
-1820 Missouri compromise was declared unconstitutional
-slavery was permitted in all countries -
Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown inspired slaves to fight for freedom
-made a plan to capture the arsenal
-someone captured John Brown and his people
-as John Brown was put to death abolitionist saluted him
-slavery raised tension in America -
The Election of 1860
-election was won by Abraham Lincoln
-Southern states seceded from union
- shortly after Abraham Lincoln became president -
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