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Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner was an enslaved man who led one of the biggest rebellions in U.S. history. This rebellion set off a massacre of over 200 black people. -
Texas Declared Independence
A group of people who settled in Mexican Texas from the United States declared independence and was called the Republic of Texas it was an independent country for nine years. They broke away from Mexico because they didn't like the laws the Mexico president made. -
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William Proviso
It was a proposal in 1846 that was unsuccessful. It was an attempt to band slavery in the new territory Mexico aquired fro Mexico in the Mexican- American War. -
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Mexican American War
The Mexican - American War was Conflict over territories in the west. Mexico didn't see Texas as an independent country. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war. -
The Figurative Slave Act
The Act was part of the Compromise of 1850. The Act required that slaved had to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. Abolitionist saw this as a blow of their efforts. People said it was tantamount to legalized kidnapping. -
Harriet Tubman Escape
During a 10 year span Harriet Tubman escorted 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. She also provided aid to the Union during the Civil War. -
Uncle Tom Cabin was published
This book was an abolitionist novel about a vividly dramatic experiences of slavery. Slavery states didn't like it because it was expressing anti-slavery sentiments. It was aimed to expose all of the evils of slavery. -
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Bleeding Kansas
This was a small war that people saw as a small civil war. It was between pro slavery and anti slavery over control of the new territory of Kansas under popular sovereignty. -
The Pottawatomie Massacre
This was the murder of five men from a pro slavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kansas, US Bay an anti slavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown. The victims were part of a pro slavery territorial government. -
Dread Scott Decision
An enslaved black man and his wife sued for their freedom. He claimed that because he had lived in a free state he was free. -
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Lincoln and Douglas Debates
Douglas accused Lincoln of being an abolitionist and Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to make slavery national. Both sides were fighting for what they thought would make the Union better. -
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John Brown Raid
John Brown was an abolitionist who led a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the US arsenals at Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
Election of 1860
This was the US breaking point. By start of Lincolns presidency seven states from the south have left the Union. This conflicted lead to an end to slavery with a violent process. -
South Carolina Secession
South Carolina legislature saw Abraham Lincoln as a threat because her didn't want slavery. They also seceded to focus on property rights from the lack of enforcement of the Figurative Slave Act. -
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Civil War Starts
At 4:30am on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops shot fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor