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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was when Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a non-slave state. This was to balance the number of slave and non-slave states. -
Free Soil Party
they started a new political party for people who where against slavery. -
fuguitive slave act
it was part of the 1850 Comprimise and stated that captured slaves were to be returned to their masters -
Compromise of 1850
In the Compromise of 1850, Califormia is admitted as a free state. This means there are more free states than slave states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe published a book about slavery called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that changed how Americans saw slavery. -
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the name when pro-slavery and anti-slavery in Kansas went against each other. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
In this act people who wanted slavery whent to kansas to vote for slavery. It tunred violent. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave living in Illinois. He sued for his freedom that his wish would come true. But the Supreme Court said no because he was black. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman saved many slaves and took them to the North. She was a cook, a nurse and a spy. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincolh was elected as President of the United States. -
Beginning of the Civil War
On April 12, 1861, the South Decided it did not want to part of the North and the Civil War started.
