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MIssouri compromise
To keep the Senate fair Maine became a free state and Missouri became a slave state and latitude like 36 30 became the new line for future states. -
Compromise of 1850
Allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the Mexican cession into two different territories and named Utah and new mexico and also ended the slave trade in Washington D.C and banned slave trade between different states. It settled the boarder dispute with new mexico and Texas. -
Fugitive slave act
This act made all escaped slaves be hunted be hunted and people who let the escaped slaves go could be fined for up to $1000 and jailed and they went allowed to trail. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin published
Harriett Beecher Stove a new England women wrote the book because she wanted to show the public the cruelty and how wrong slavery is. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen dangles made a bill where all of the land from Oklahoma to Canada became Kansas and Nebraska and the settlers decided slavery -
Dred Scott case
Dred scott was a slave who lived in Missouri and was forced to move to Wisconsin a free state and Illinois but he did not get his freedom so when his owner died and it went to his wife he became a freeman. -
John Browns Raid on Harper ferry
John brown was an abolitionist who led an antislavery campaign into Harper ferry Virginia to raid a arsenal wearhouse. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected to president because of the population of the north out weighed the south lead by hannibal hamlin and since Lincoln lead up winning the the election this set the stage for the civil war -
South Carolina secedes
On December 20th 1860 south Carolina was the first state to secede following them by late February 1861 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas had also seceded.