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The compromise was a legislative measure passed by congress aimed at resolving tensions between the north and the south over slavery and territory expansion and power.The slave act was to appease the south that escaped slaves will. Be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. -
This act was introduced by Senator Stephen A Douglas of Illinois.It dramatically affected the debate over slavery and intensified the sectional conflict between the north and south. This act also allowed for the possibility of slavery in the northern states. -
This incident was one of the most violent things leading up to the civil war Brooks entered the nearly empty Senate chamber. Without warning, he approached Sumner who was sitting at his desk and began beating him over the head with a heavy cane. -
Bleeding Kansas was a violent period in Kansas Territory clashes between pro slavery and anti slavery. The violence caused by the political and social conflict gave Kansas this nickname grim. -
This case was a controversial Supreme Court decision. Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man who sued for his freeedom after his owner Emerson died.However the case was appealed and it reached the Supreme Court. Unfortunately he did not win. -
The Lincoln Douglas debates was a series of seven debates between Lincoln the republican for the U.S senate from Illinois and Douglas the Democratic incumbent senator.The debates were most pressing the issue of the time slavery and its expansion into new territories. -
John was committed to ending slavery and he led a group of 21 men including African Americans to attack the federal arsenal.The goal was to take all weapons stored at the ferry and give them to the enslaved people in the area and spread the rebellion to other southern states. -
The Abraham election was an important moment in American history. The election took place in a divided nation with tensions over slavery. Abraham was an republican candidate his platform was mainly for ending slavery and stopping it from spreading into the territories but he didn’t call for its immediate abolition in the south.