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Missouri compromise
Agreement making Missouri a slave state in turn for Maine being free. -
Nat Turners rebellion
A slave rebellion in Virginia led by Nat Turner that resulted in harsher slave laws. -
Compromise of 1850
Done to ease tensions. Included making Cali a free state and fugitive slave act. -
Fugitive slave act
A law that required escaped slaves be returned to owners, even if they make it into a free state. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicted the harsh life of a slave and their struggles. -
Kansas - Nebraska act
Law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to choose if they are free or slave which overturned the Missouri compromise. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series violent conflicts in Kansas between Pro and Anti slavery groups. -
Brooks attacks Sumner
Southern Congressmen Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane for his anti slavery speech -
Lincoln - Douglas debates
Lincoln and Douglas debates happen as they compete for Senate which gained Lincoln national attention. -
Raid on harpers ferry
Abolitionist John Brown led an attack on a federal arsenal in Virginia, hoping to start a slave rebellion, but he was captured and executed. -
Jefferson Davis becomes President of Confederacy
Davis was chosen as the leader of the Confederate States when Southern states seceded from the U.S. -
Fort Sumter is attacked
The first battle of the Civil War, when Confederate forces fired on a U.S. fort in South Carolina, forcing its surrender.