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Missouri Compromise
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. This compromise was made by Henry Clay. Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events. leading to the American Civil War. President James K. Polk made it. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was important because it helped to bring on the Civil War. President Lincoln is supposed to have said to Harriet Beecher Stowe “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Published in 1852, this book showed people in the northern states the horrors of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah. This deal was made by Henry Clay. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law", for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. Senator Stephen Douglas was involved with this act. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. -
the Lincoln Douglas debate
the Lincoln Douglas debate was the debate between Lincoln and Douglas for the idea to expand slavery through the country. Douglas won the debate but later on, Lincoln won the presidents. -
John Browns raid
John Brown's raid was on 1859 was an attack on a happier fairy in hopes that they would get weapons and start a slave revolt but sadly no slaves came. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
In the year 1860, the race for the presidency was between an Illinois congressman named Abraham Lincoln, and the Democrat Stephen Douglas. Lincoln won this election and became president with the goal of abolishing slavery. This election took place in Virginia. When Lincoln won the election it prompted South Carolina to secede from the union and start the civil war. -
southern seccession
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas were the states that seceded from the country. these states seceded because of the slavery issue. because of the battle at fort sumter. because of the battle at fort sumter many other states decided to seceded.
