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Fugitive slave law
to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
Admission of CA as a free state
slaves being sold in DC
Utah and New Mexico being admitted a slave state -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Story calling for the end of slavery
North decided it was horrible
South felt it was propaganda -
Kansas Nabraska Act
people in the territories could decide tor themselves whether their states wuld alow slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas became the rallying cry for the anti-slavery Northerners and the new political party called the republicans -
Dred Scott
Slave sued for his freedom
African Americanswere not citizens and could not sue. Slaves were property -
Lincoln -Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglas Debates slavery Lincoln legal should not be expanded Lincoln lost the election -
Harper's Ferry
john brown seized the federal arsenal plan stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery -
Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 votd mostly based on which section of the country they lived in.
Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into the new territories -
Fort Sumter
lincoln notified davis(president of the confedirate states of america) he was sending supplies to the fort. south opend fire on april 12,1861 and the union, had to surrender. THE WAR HAD BEGUN!!!!!
