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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Who: Congressman passed the missouri compromise
Where: Missouri
What: The missouri compromise was a effort by congress to defuse rivalries by the missouri
Why: To make sure the number of Slave states balance each other. -
Wilmot Proviso
Who: David WIlmot
When: 1846
Where: U.S and Mexico
What: the Wilmot Proviso removed the right of slave holder to take their slave. Southerners claimed hat the bill was unconstitutional
Why: This was to stop the extension of slaves -
Compromise of 1850
Who: Henry Clay
Where: California
What: they did this in order for california to be admitted as a free state
Why: so that states don't fight regarding slaves -
Fugitive Slave act
Who: Slaves
Where:South
What:It was to recapture the runaway slaves. The judges got $5 to free slave and $10 to give it to the owner
Why:This was to recapture the slaves and the South liked it -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who:Stephen a. Douglas
Where:Kansas and Nebraska
What: This act helped the opening new lands for settlement and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing the white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereinity
Why: this allowed settlers there allow slavery or not
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Bleeding Kansas
Who:Kansas
Where:Kansas
What:This is when kansas had a series of violent political confrontations in the US involving anti-slavery
Why:This happened when kansas decided to be a part of the US and be a slave state and in the free slave states
ENDS: 1861
THE YERAS ARE ACCURATE BUT I COULDNT FIND THE DAY NOR MONTH -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Who: Dred Scott and Sanford
What: This was because the supreme court ruled that Americans of a african descent, whether free or slave were not citizens
Why:This happened because the supreme court said that african americans of any type cannot sue -
Lincoln Douglous debates
Who: Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas
Where: Illinois
What: This was a formal political debate because of the illinois two US senate seats
