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The compromise tried to ease tensions over slavery in new territories gained from Mexico.
It included the Fugitive Slave Act, which required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people angering many in the North -
settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
This overturned the Missouri Compromise, which had previously banned slavery in certain areas. -
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, violent clashes broke out between pro slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
This was a preview of the Civil War a literal fight over slavery -
A Supreme Court case where Dred Scott, an enslaved man, sued for his freedom.
The Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories.
This decision enraged abolitionists in the North -
A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over the issue of slavery in the territories.
Lincoln gained national attention for arguing that the country could not survive “half slave and half free -
Abolitionist John Brown led an armed raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia, hoping to start a slave revolt.
The raid failed, but it terrified the South and made Brown a martyr in the North. -
the one known as Lincoln, he’s is the one who opposed the spread of slavery, was elected president.
Southern states feared he would abolish slavery entirely, so many decided to secede from the Union soon after — leading directly to the Civil War