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This compromise stated that Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state. The 36'30" line was drawn which decided whether slavery would be allowed in some territories or not. -
There was five parts to this compromise. The first part was that California enters as a free state. It ended slave trade. It made a strict Fugitive Slave Law. It settled boarder problems between New Mexico and Texas. Lastly, it stated that slavery issue should be decided by popular sovereignty. -
Law that required citizens to catch runaway slaves. If a person didn't obey a law they would be fined or put in jail for six months. Many blacks who were free were captured and sent back into slavery. Northerners hated this law because it forced them to become apart of slavery -
Novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed the evils of slavery. Northerners changed their views on slavery after they read it but the southerners said the book was a lie. -
It divided Kansas and Nebraska and decided that slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. There were pro-slavery and anti-slavery in one area which led to conflict. Lastly, Northerners believed that this repealed the Missouri Compromise. -
Violence breaks out in Kansas so John Brown and his sons try to take the law into their own hands. They go to a small town and pull five pro-slavery men out of their beds at night. These men were murdered. -
He was a slave and lived with his owner which died so he had abolitionist attorneys file a law suit for him. This went to the Supreme Court but failed. The court said he was property and not a citizen so he could not file a lawsuit. They said that Congress could not ban slavery in any of the territories which the southerners liked and northerners hated. -
Lincoln and Douglass debated. Douglass believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty but Lincoln believed that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the territories. He also believed that the Nation could not survive if the fighting continued to rip the Union apart with slavery. -
John Brown led five blacks and thirteen whites into the Harper's Ferry. They planned to raid an arsenal and start a slave revolt. Some of them men died so Robert E. Lee arrested John Brown. Brown was found guilty of murder and treason and was hanged. The Northerners called a martyr. -
It was Lincoln vs. Douglass in the Presidential election of 1860. The Southerners didn't like Lincoln and what he believed in but he still got elected. The Southerners were angry because they believed that the Northerners had much more power then they had. The Southerners talked about seceding from the Union.