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Wilmot Proviso
He wanted to ban slavery in the mexican cession territory out west, excluding texas. -
compromise of 1850
1) Admission CA as a free state
2) Slaves being sold in DC
3) Utah and New Mexico being admitted as slave states -
Fugitive Slave Law
To help slave holders recapture runaway slaves. -
uncles tom cabin
Story calling for an end to slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
A small scale civil war in kansas which lasted for four months and caused two hunders deaths. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People in the territoies could decide for themselves weather their state would allow slavery people began flooding into kansas and nebraska -
Dred scott
Slave sued for his freedom African American were not citizens and could not sue. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglas Debated Slavery lincoln slavery eas wrong but legal should not be expanded lincoln lost the election, but became nationally famous. -
Harpers Ferry
john brown store guns and gave freed slaved. -
Election of 1860
The votes in 1860 mostly based on which section section of country they lived in. -
Fort Sumter
Lincolns men were in forts and they were trapped.
