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Compromise of 1850
California was entered as a free state. New Mexico and Utah were allowed to pick if they were free or or slave states. Republic of Texas gave up land for 10 million dollers -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Publication of a book about slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
U.S. aquires Kansas and Nebraska one free state and one slave state -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas and Missouri break out in fighting over slave and free border. -
Brooks/Sumner affair
Sumner gave a speech about what had happend in bleeding kansas -
Dred Scott decision
Decision saying that slaves or former slave were not citizens of the United States. -
John Browns Raid
Brown lead a fleet of men to attack A Union armery. -
Lincoln Election
Lincoln is elected president of the Union.