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Compromise of 1850
Allows for the admission of California as a free state and applies the notion of “popular sovereignty” to the Utah and New Mexico territories. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a fiction novel written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom is an antislavery novel and played a hand in the Civil War. This book made people really think about slavery and others got angry it was written. -
Nebraska-Kansas Act
Also known as the fugitive slave act. Republican party was formed. -
Bleeding Kansas/ Pottawatomie Massacre
The Kansas-Nebraska Act- pushed the idea of popular sovereignty. Violence over the issue of slavery -
Dred Scott Decision
The United States Supreme Court decides, seven to two, that blacks can never be citizens and that Congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in any territory. -
Abraham Lincoln gets elected
