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Wilmot Proviso
A bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States that might acquire from the War with Mexico
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Compromise of 1850
The compromise was that if California became a free state, slave states would become a minority in the Senate just as they were in the House
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Fugitive slave act
Helped Slave owners recapture slaves better because they wouldn't need a arrest warrant
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel that explains the cruelty and immorality of slavery it was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A bill that was drafted to organize the Nebraska Territory it proposed to divide the territory into two parts Nebraska and Kansas.
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Formation of republican party
When the Whig Party was having problems they split and then the northern part of the whig party made the Republicans
Caption: this is the republican party logo -
Bleeding Kansas
A war that was broke out after John Brown led a massacre in the Potawatomie creek.
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott's owner died he said that he was free because he lived in territories where slavery was illegal the case reached the supreme court but they ruled against it because he was not a U.S. citizen. -
Caning of Charles Sumner-
Senator Charles Sumner insulted A.P. Butler and a relative of Butler beat Sumner unconciously. After the North made the ralying cry Bleeding Sumners
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Attack on Harper's Ferry
When John Brown went to Harper's Ferry, Virginia to capture all the U.S. weapons.
Caption: a portrait of John Brown -
Election of 1860
The Southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the party's platform but Lincoln won so the south was not happy and the north was
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Secession
Before the election the South said that if Lincoln won they would secede from the country so when Lincoln won they seceded from the country.
Caption: This is the picture of the country split into 2
