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Missouri Compromise
the U.S. congress passed a law that admitted missouri to the union as a slave state and maine as a free state -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people -
Gag Rule
postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery without hearing them. -
Wilmot Proviso
to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and risked her life to help others escape slavery -
Compromise of 1850
it is a debate on what north and southerners get. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
this book made northerners more angry about slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
it was a bill to decide if slavery should be allowed or not. -
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown and his sons killed five slavery advocates -
Dred Scott Decision
lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln-Douglas debate is one person debating against another person -
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown -
Abraham Lincoln elected
he ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories