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Missouri Compromise
Was to see if Missouri was going to be a slave state but Maine had to be a free state -
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Wilmot Proviso
That slavery is prohibited from Mexico and California -
Compromise of 1850
California would be a free state and Washington D.C would not trade or sell slaves. -
Fugitive Slave act
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. Any one who keep or helped a slave was fined or imprisend. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Herriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which stunned people about her discription of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A bill that would allow populary sovereignty to see if they wanted to be a free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
People who were against slavery and those who supported slavery moved to Kansas to vote. First violent clash over slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
Went to court to try to get his freedom for his family but he was not let free intill his old master free him -
Lincoln Douglas Debate's
That slaves should be free and stases have rights to be free -
John Brown's Raid
A raid to free slaves 22 men 10 died in the raid to help free slaves -
Lincoln Elected
Elected even when the south hated him. -
South Carolina secedes
South Carolina was the first to seced from the United States and the other South states would seced also