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Missouri Compromsie
Proposed by Henry Clay it admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.It also created an imaginary line to separate free and slave states. The purpose of the compromise was to keep the balance and peace between free and slave states. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. The conflict over the proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Claimed he would hanged any sectionalist. -
Compromise of 1850
It was congress's plan to lower the tensions between North and South for the Mexican Cession Land.
Who: Henry Clay. Why: To stop infighting. What: 5 bills that was passed. How: Push the Civil War further down the line. Where: Congress. -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States,July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853.The last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House.He wedged the difference between North and South -
Fugitive Slave Act
This controversial law allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without due process of law and prohibited anyone from aiding escaped fugitives or obstructing their recovery.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
An anti-slavery novel written by american author, Harriet Stowe The book was about the nasty truth of slavery. Like how a slave was whipped to death by their owner. Which the South banned the Book and burn it which made it famous. thnks south -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States (1853–57). Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. -
Creation of the Republican Party
Anti-Slavery Whigs create the Republican Party which lead to the rise of Abraham Lincoln. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/ Bleeding Kansas
When the U.S. was debating whether or not to abolish slavery, Kansas was about to become a state. The government decided to leave the decision of whether or not slavery would be legal or not up to the residents of Kansas themselves. People disagreed on it so much that a sort of mini civil war broke out all across Kansas. -
Sumner Caning
How a man insulted a senior senator of South Carolina and a Brooks beat him with his cane. -
Dred Scott Case
The North was is shocked when the Court rule that slaves in free states with their masters are still slaves. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861. He serving immediately prior to the American Civil War, which he did nothing to solve the growing issue of slavery. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
"The Lincoln–Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate." -
Harpers Ferry
This was the raid by John Brown and his five sons to start a slave rebellion, but no slaves came, causing the deaths of his sons and soon him by execution by the South. -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
This election was for who was going to be the next president for the US. Lincoln, Bell, Douglas, Breckinridge. Abraham Lincoln got the most votes and became the next president of America. his feelings about slavery, Abraham was most likely going to try to get rid of slavery. This scared the South into pulling the last straw that ended up in the recession of the South from the North into there own country.These countries disagree and they want to become whole agian which lead to WAR -
Southern Secession
Eleven of the southern states didn't like the fact that Abraham Lincoln was voted as president so they all decided to succede and become the Confererate States of America.
