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Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania proposed the bill callded Wilmot Provisco to outlaw slavery in any territory the USA might acquire from the war with Mexico.
Caption:The Wilmot Provisco bill. -
Helped slave owners recapture slaves better because they wouldn't need a arrest warrant.
Caption:This is the document of the fugitive slave act. -
When California was qualified to become a state, the North and South were split. The Congress decided to let California be a free state and would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico in the war. Not many people liked the decision and tensions rose.
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A novel that explains the cruelty and immorality of slavery it was writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Caption:Image of the Novel -
Senitore Douglous drafted a bill to organize the Nebraska territory the bill was called the Kansas Nebraska act. The south liked the bill.
Caption: Picture of the Kansas Nebraska Act -
There were more proslavery people then antislavery people so they were all killing each other for this land. Also the legislator was filled with proslavery representatives.
Caption:Picture of Bleeding Kansas -
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts spoke against the proslavery forces in Kansas. Preston Brooks attacked Sumner with a cane and almost killed him. Brooks was cheered for in the souther while the North was shocked a the violence.
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Dred Scott was a slave and his was living in the North thought that he should be free he sued for it.
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John Brown wanted to rally up the slaves and kill the slave owners in the end he was hung and it didn't work.
Caption:Harpers Ferry. -
The democratic concenvention was held in north carolina. the votes showed that north and south had different opions.
Caption:picture that shows wat part of the contry voted for who. -
The north considered the secession of the south states to be unconstitutional. Southerners complaned that The north intended to use their majority to force the south to abolish slavery.
Caption:Map of states that seceded.
