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Slavery
*forced labor
*necessary evil
*cultural division -
Missouri Compromise
*makes Maines a free state
*reexamines issue of slavery as US gains territory
*36 30 rules no slavery above that line and allowed slavery below -
Compromise of 1850
*Presented by Henry Clay
*ends slave trade in D.C
*makes CA a free state -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
*by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Showed how slavery divded families
*interesting details of the unspeakable institution and its effects -
Brooks attacks Sumner
*shows brutal side of slavery
*Brooks hits Sumner with cane to death during debate
*Causes deeper tension between Nortth and South -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
*Overturned Missouri Compromise
*Abolitionist and Proslave clashed
*used popular sovereingty to decide which states were slave and free -
Reblican Party Formed
*Whigs
*Wanted no expansion of slavery
*Called the 'know-nothings' -
Bleeding Kansas
*Fight for 2 years
*Result of Kansas-Nebraska Act
*Abolitionist and provslave people rush to Kansas to vote. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
*Not sucessful
*Captured and hanged
*North see him as a hero while South hate him -
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
*Debate on expansion of slavery
*Debates were held on several days in several towns
*Lincoln got negative attention from south from his anti-expansion ideas -
Sucession of Southern States(S.C. First)
*formed the CSA with Davis as president
*many states followed after S.C.
*hated Lincoln as president -
Firing on Fort Sumter in S.C.
*Southern troops blasted fort with cannonballs
*Considered start of civil war
*Lincoln sent them food and supplies -
Lincoln Calls Up Volunteers to Fight
*Increased number of troops to fight in Battle of Bull Run
*CSA formed an army around the same time
*Asked for 75,000 men