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a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
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five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
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a book that was published about anti-slavery
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allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
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John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers some of the members of the Pottawatomie Rifles killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas.
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He went to court and tried to become a legal freedman.
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a republican and democrat trying to win Senate seat in Illinois
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Guy he risked his son's lives to free slaves but the slaves did rebel and he got caught and was sentenced to life and all his sons died
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to become a Republican president.
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South Carolina separated and was not apart of the union
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The 13 colonies
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Confederate soldiers fired at the fort
