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Mexican-American War
Z. Taylor leads the US Military to defeat Santa Anna; US wins! -
Compromise of 1850
Voting on the issue of slavery; Fugitive Slave Act makes helping a runaway slave a crime; causes increased abolition feelings in North. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposes and emphasizes the evils of slavery casuing the North to become increasingly abotilionist and the South to be even more defensive about slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty (voting) will determine slavery issue in any state; slavery can exist anywhere. -
The Republican Party is formed.
Republicans oppose the extension of slavery into new territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
Popular Sovereignty causes violance; pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces move into Kansas to vote on issue of slavery. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Supreme Court rules that the Missouri Compromise is unconstituional; Congress doesn't have power to regulate slavery; slaves are not citizens they are property and have no rights. -
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
An abolitionist by the name of John Brown attempts to start a slave revolt; Brown is arrested by Robert E. Lee and hanged; strict slave codes are passsed; ex-slaves can't drink, assemple or own weapons.
