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Missouri Compromise
what it was is an admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state While keeping the balance of power between North and South.Helped with the perfect equilibrium -
Nat turner's rebellion
Was when a slave had broke free and got other bunch of saves to attack the white owner. Killed 55-65 people at least 51 white.The state executive 56 slaves that were part of the revolution. wanted to show everyone the slavery was not right -
Compromise of 1850
Henry clay was attempting to seek a compromise between North and South.Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. trying to not get us in a civil war and was a band-aid for a few years. -
Fugitive slave act
Was made to appeased the south and it made and run away slaves not have trail and just get captured and brought back to the owner. -
Uncle tom’s cabin
Showed that it was morally wrong and was criticizing the south way to make money and the south through that they would put in laws against it. -
Bleeding Kansas
undid previous legislation that limited the expansion of slavery, such as the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.Made people chose weather if they wanted slaver or not but the surrounding slave states wanted it as a slave state so people went in and vote illegally to make it a slave state. 1854-1861 -
Kansas Nebraska Act
made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It also allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. This law cancelled the Missouri Compromise, which said that slavery was not legal in those areas. -
Brooks Attack Sumner
Speaks for 2 days about how Kansas should no endorse slavery, Since Sumner was attacking Andrew Butler with is speech impenitent Nephew person Brooks comes to the defense with a cane -
Dred scott case
Was a free slave and then had to go back to his slave state Missouri. He thought that because he had time spent in a free state entitled him to emancipation.court decided that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision outraged abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
It was a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
Raid on Harper’s ferry
was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859. He attacked and captured the United States arsenal at Harper Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 21 men in his party, was defeated by a platoon of U.S. Marines led by Colonel Robert E. Lee. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid. Tubman was prevented by illness -
Election of 1860
President Lincoln defeated the southern democrat John C Breckinridge, The election had 4 candidates Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln John Bell and John C Breckinridge, Lincoln won the election but the runner up was Stephen A. Douglas