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Missouri Compromise
Missouri was stuck between being a free state and a slave state so they divide the state by the 36/30 longitude/lattitude line -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War she led the underground railroad that escaped slaves to north -
Nat Turner
Lead a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 -
Prigg vs. Pennsylvania
Overuled the fugitive slave act this made the south angry and pushed them closer to war -
Texas Annexation
The incorporation of Teaxas into the UNited States. -
compromise of 1850
It banned slavery in the capital od DC, other things happened but this was the only major one -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War" -
Lincoln vs. Douglas debates
Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in order to persuade others to go with/against slavery dividing the nation furthermore -
Harper's Ferry
Slave revolt led by John in which slaves feared to participate, 10 people died and it made it clear how serious of a problem slavery was