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Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise attempted to prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
It was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that killed at least 50 whites. -
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Gag Rule
The gad rule was the rule that forbid the discussion of slavery in the US House of Representatives. -
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Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
She followed the underground railroad and made it to freedom and soon became known for saving over 70 slaves and bringing them into freedom, she soon got the name Moses, and nobody could catch her even with a prize of money on her to whoever finds her and brings her to the police. -
Compromise of 1850
It was five separate bills passed that somewhat solved the dispute between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
This was a book about how slavery was which caused a lot of backlash by the south towards her and praise from the north. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty, and it created the Kansas and Nebraska territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was the the period of repeated outbreaks fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people because of the creation of the new territory of Kansas. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a decision made by the court that even though Dred Scott was on free land he was still an African American, and was property which made him stay a slave even on free land. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
They were debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate, incumbent Senator, and the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
It was an effort by John to arm the slaves with weapons himself and rebell back, but it did not go well he was soon caught. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
This elections result pushed the nation into war.