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Missouri Compromise By: Ryan McDonald
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Wilmot Proviso By: Ryan McDonald
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Compromise of 1850 By: Ryan McDonald Primary source: http://www.history.com/topics/compromise-of-1850
Divisions over servitude in region picked up in the Mexican-American (1846-48). War were settled in the Compromise of 1850. It comprised of laws conceding California as a free state, making Utah and New Mexico regions with the topic of servitude in each to be controlled by prominent power, settling a Texas-New Mexico limit question in the previous' support, finishing the slave exchange Washington, D.C., and making it less demanding for southerners to recoup outlaw slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Act By: Alex Marrs
Passed by the United States on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850. It was where all escaped slaves were to be returned to their master and all citizens of free states had to obey. Many slaves that escaped North had been brought back. Primary source: https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2013/09/18/fugative_slave_act.jpg -
Uncle Tom's Cabin By: Alex Marrs
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a story wrote that described the things wrong with slavery and brought awareness to bring an end to it. In the first year over 300,000 thousand copies sold in the U.S. and over 1,000,000 in Great Britain. The book was the best-selling of the 19th century. Harriet Beecher Stowe the author was an active abolitionist. Primary Source: http://liblamp.uwm.edu/omeka/SPC2/files/original/76d3280f0be513d8d813f480bd90fb74.jpg I chose this source because it is the actual book. -
Kansas Nebraska Act By: Alex Marrs
The act allowed the people that lived in the territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not. The North was triggered about this but the south Strongly agreed. People that were pro-slavery rushed to Kansas and settled there. The anti-slavery people wanted to have another election to see if the law would change but pro-slavery people refused to vote. Primary Source: https://historygcp.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/ad.jpg I chose this picture because it is an actual document from 1854. -
Dred Scott Case By: Alex Marrs.
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American that sued for his freedom. Scott had lived in two places with his owner where slavery was illegal. He had tried to argue that this meant he was a free man. They did not allow him to sue because he was a slave therefore, he was not a U.S. citizen. Primary Source: http://571644263930687903.weebly.com/uploads/1/5/0/6/15066266/7375497_orig.jpg?0 I chose this because it is actually from 1857. -
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