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Missouri comprimise
they alowed missouri to be a slave state but to keep it equal they made maine a free state and also they made it that slavery is legal south of the 36 30 -
American Anti Slavery Society
The ablitionist created a group to spread the anti slavery message but many slavery supporters killed them and burned their phamplets. At 1838 they had 250000 supporters. -
Burning abolitionist literature in Charleston, South Carolina (1835)
It was when many of the people or a mob burned the litetarature and the phamplets these phamlets were made by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan’s American Anti-Slavery -
Gag Rule
the abolitionist kept on sending letters and petitions to congress but congress came up with the gag rule whch meant nonbody would read thier petitions but this rule was taken oht in 1844 -
Pennsylvania Hall burns
This was when a bunch a people that wanted slavery started to burn the ablirionists metting center where they held many of thier meetings[, the place was called Pennslyvsnia -
Comprimise of 1850
Because America got more land from mexico their was a disagreement of wether the states would be free. California became free,they allowed people in the territories to vote whether they wanted slavery or not and the slave trade ended. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act made it mandatory that if a slave runs away to the north the abolitionist weren't allowed to make them free they had to send them back -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
It was a book that was written to show how evil slavery was and the highest selling book for the 19th century and the book made the south mad -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It removed the mississippi comprimise and it allowed the states to vote for slavery this was made byStephen A. Douglas -
Bleeding Kansas
Because of the kansas nebraska act the people moved to kansas to influence slavery and many of the people who didn't want slavery killed the newcomers. Nearly 200 people died -
Dred Scott desicion
A slave was trying to sue his master because he was taking him to a free state, but they went to the supreme court and they ruled scott out, they also came up that any state could become a slave state and no slave can be a citezen -
John brown raid
He raided the citites with 22 other people and he kidnapped the most important people but within a day he was captured and hung. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Most southerns didn't wan't abe to win and they hated him because they thought he would try and end slavery -
Secession
when abe became president many of the states started to secede of the fear that he would abolish slavery the states that left were Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. -
Fort Sumter
When Lincoln took office, he said that no state is lawfully allowed to leave the country, but that he would not fight a war unless the South started the war. Believing they were now their own country, southerners began to take control of federal buildings in the South such as forts. When the Confederates (the South) attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Lincoln called on federal troops to take back the fort. This event marks the beginning of the Civil War.