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To keep the Senate equal, Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. 36-60 was the new line to decide free and slave states. -
Thought by Henry Clay carried by Stephen Douglas, California became a free state, ended the Mexican Session, ended slave trading Washington D.C, and set the border between Texas and Mexico -
A new law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. Judges were payed to more to send slaves or black people in general to the south. -
Harriet Beacher Published an anti-slavery novel about a slave who was kind and everyone liked but then was bought and whipped to death. -
Stephen Douglas set up a new bill for the northwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase. It divided the territory in two and gave them the right to vote on slavery. -
This controversial case taken to the supreme court was about an enslaved man Dred Scott who was taken to a free state but then taken back to his home in a slave state. He filed that he should be free but the supreme court disagreed. -
Abolitionist John Brown led his followers including Slaves to Harpers Ferry Virginia. His idea was to give weapons to slaves to help them escape which was unsuccessful. -
Democrats from the south and north disagreed greatly so they split. Running for the northern democrats Abraham Lincoln won the election a surprise as he hadn't been 10 states ballots. -
The first state to secede and form the Confederate states of America. 7 southern states followed.