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Wilmot Proviso
No slavery in lands acquired from Mexico.
The south thinks the north is after them -
Compromise of 1850
Divison of slavery over territory gained in the Mexican American war.
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Fugitive Slave Acts
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
The Fugitive Slave Acts were among the most controversial laws of the early 19th century. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Stowe, about how slaves were treated.
The North was connected by the book by how Harriet talked about slavery.
The south was outraged by how they are trying to get rid of slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
John Brown ordered a murder on 5 proslavery settlers. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Dred Scott
In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that time spent in a free state entitled him to emancipation. But the court decided that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. This outraged Abotinolists -
Lincoln Douglas
Was famous over the debate in 1858 with Abraham Lincoln.
This influenced other people to truly think about their arguments -
Harper's Ferry
The U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown (1800-59).
John Brown was an abotionalist . He was tried by the state of Virginia for treason and murder. He was found guilty -
Election of 1860
Abolistinist tries to get rid of slavery
Southerners are outraged because they won't gain business -
Fort Sumter
First shots taken here of the Civil War.
Spanish American war was taken here
