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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 stopped a 4- year long confrontations between the slave states of the South, and the free states of the North regaurding the status of territories aquired during the Mexican-American war -
Publiation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel was published. -
Bleeding Kansas
Period of violence during the settling of Kansas Territory. Proslavery and free-states settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Was a law that was past that let Kansas and Nebraska decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Brooks/ Sumner Afair
President Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner severly in the chamber of the US Senate. -
Dred Scott Decision
United States Supreme Court declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. -
John Brown's raid
also known as the raid on Harpers Ferry; was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859 -
1860 Election
A quadrennial election between Abraham Lincoln , John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas
