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The Missouri compromise was an Act that authorized Missouri to be a slave state and authorized Maine to be a free state, this to keep balance between free and slave states -
The important abolitionist, author and journalist Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery to become one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement and fight for the freedom of enslaved people, he went from Baltimore to Massachusetts. -
The American invasion of Mexico in a matter of territories, Mexico did not recognize Texas as American territory but the United States annexed it, which lead to a military dispute which the United States won, although losing 13000 casualties -
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful attempt by David Wilmot to forbid slavery in the territories that the United States won from Mexico in the Mexican American war, the proposal read "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.". Despite not passed, the bill created a debate and made the tensions between the south and the north bigger -
The compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in said year, as an attempt to lower the tensions between North and South after California requested to become a free state and join the Union. The compromise involved laws along the lines of abolishing slave trade in Washington D.C., helping fugitive slaves, allowing California in the Union, giving Utah a territorial government, and establishing Texas' Western and Northern boundaries -
An anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the novel described the horrible that enslaved people went through, some say this novel "helped lay the way the groundwork for the American civil war" -
The Kansas Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty, which allowed the people of a territory to decide if slavery would be allowed within a new states border. Northerners were against it, and ended up being a failure. -
Scott v. Sandford was a legal battle, Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri originally, then moved to Illinois, and when he went back to Missouri he was considered a slave, he claimed suit for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. The United States Supreme Court decided to deny the legality of black citizenship in America. -
John Brown's raid was an attempt to create a slave revolt by the abolitionist John Brown. They took over the United States arsenal in Virginia. Sixteen people were killed, being ten from John Brown's side. John Brown was eventually arrested and executed, but they got national attention and increased tensions relating to the topic of slavery -
In the Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the president of the United States, who ended up being the president to issue the emancipation proclamation, which freed all the people that were enslaved in the Southern states of the country