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Fugitive slave act
It was passed as a part of the compromise of 1850, Yhsi act forced any frederal offical who did not arrest a runaway slave liabel to pay a fine. This a very controversial to increase thier effrost agains slavery. This act increaed the undergroun pailroad -
uncle Tom's Cabin Was Relaesed
This was written by Harriet Beecher stowe. He wrote this book to show how evil slavery was . It had a huge impact on the way the Northerners viewed slavery. -
Charles sumner was attacked by preston
Border ruffians had ransacked Lawrence Kansas which was know to be a free state Preston Brooks attacked Chare Sumner with a can right after Sumner had given a speech which he was attacked the pro-slavery forces for the violence occuring in Kansas -
Pottamatomie Massacre
In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas) by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers (some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles) killed seven settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. This was one of the many episodes in Kansas preceding the American Civil War. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott lost his case which was proving that he should be free becasue he had been as a slave while living in a free state. They say his petion could not be seen becasue he did not hold any property. He was still a lsave becasue slaves were to be consideced property. This furthred there efforts to fight against slaves -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected
When the Kansas- Nebraska act passed Kansas was allowed to determing wheather they would enter the union as a free or slave . The lecompton Constiution was created allowing for kansas to be a slave state. pro slavery people suppoted by president James Buchanan attempted to push the constituion throgh the US It was set back to kansas for a vote, vote rejected it -
John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry
John Brown radical abolition ist who had been involved in anti- slavery violence in kansas, on october 16. He led a group of seventeen including 5 black members to go raid the arsencl located in harpers farry. His goal was to start a slave up riseing. Brown and his men were surrounded and eventually killed or captured by troops which wasled by colonel Robert E. Lee. This was arson wich led to the open war fair -
Confederate states of America formed
Was an unrecognized state set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. -
Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President
Even though his views about slavery were considered moderate during the nomination and election, South Carolina had warned it would secede if he won Lincoln agreed with the majority of the Republican Party that the South was becoming too powerful .. -
Bleeding Kansas/ Lawrence Kansas attack
The Kansas- Nebraska was passed allowingh Nebraske and Kansas there territoies to decide for them. Kansas forces foguth over the states foture