A House Divided

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    Mexican-American War

    President James Polk provoked war, Abraham Lincoln (whig) wanted war to expand slavery.
  • Compromise of 1850

    California became a free state, Texas became a slave state, other states got popular sovereignty.
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Citizens were paid to arrest runaway slaves.
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    Underground Railroads

    Network of whites or free people offering shelter to slaves that escaped through the course of slavery.
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    Pro & Anti Slave Literature

    Literature over the issues on slavery was written to target children and people.
  • KS-NE Act

    KS-NE Act

    Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery based off of popular sovereignty.
  • Bleeding Kansas 1854

    Bleeding Kansas 1854

    Attacks and violence leading up to the civil war.
  • Sumner-Brooks Incident

    Sumner-Brooks Incident

    Brooks a pro- slavery democrat attacked Sumner an anti-slavery Republican with a cane in 1856.
  • Republican Party est

    Republican Party est

    Members of the Whig party est this party to be anti-slavery in western territory.
  • Lecompton Constitution

    Lecompton Constitution

    Constitution that went in Kansas excluding free people of color from its bill of rights.
  • Panic of 1857

    Banks were failing and Americans lost money for railroads and couldn’t pay their debts.
  • Dred Scott v Sandford

    Black Americans could not be citizens.
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery.
  • John Brown’s Raid

    Brown was hung from his movement of trying to end slavery, Brown is Praised in the North, but hated in the south
  • Election of 1860

    Lincoln won starting civil war to end the expantion of slavery.