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Wilmot proviso
Wilmot Proviso, 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to venable Polk to negotiate a territory with Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
Five separate bills passed by Congress regarding slave and free states -
Fugitive slave act
Part of the compromise of 1850 between slaveholding states in northern states concerning runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher stowe is an anti slave novel -
Kansas Nebraska act
Allowed people in Kansas'and Nebraska's territory to decide for themselves if they allow slavery in their state -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political confrontations involving anti-and pro slavery -
Dred Scott case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
Lincoln and Douglas debates
Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas -
Harper's ferry
The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln won presidency -
Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that started the American Civil War.
