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Slavery
A 'neccessary Evil'
caused division amongst North & South states
Forced Labor -
Period: to
Civil War Fuses
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri became a slave state
Maine entered the Union as a Free State
A boundry was set called the 36' 30" Parallel: North no slavery, South allowed by popular soveriegnty -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Sued on basis that since he was moved to a non-slave territory that he was no more a slave.
HE lost on technicallity that stated he was propery an since he was owned didnt have human rights.
Cse violated Compromise of 1820 -
The Compromise of 1850
California enters as a free state
End of slave trade in Washington D.C
poular soveriegnty in Utah & New Mexico -
Death of the whigs Birth of the Republicans
Republicans held ground to not allow slavery in teriories
Republican voted to office in 1860
Know also as Free Soilers & the Know Knothing Party -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
showed the horrors of slavery in fictional plantation story.
The North loved it v. the South banning the book. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Soveriegnty put to question of slavery in the new territories
Missoui Compromise is violated
Pro and anti abolistionists rush to vote on the issue to prohibit or aallow slavey. -
Bleeding Kansas
The fight between abolistionists and southerners for the issue of slavery in Kansas.
Many died.
Henry Clay died So it was up to Senator Stephen Douglas to work a compromise -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Congressional debate upon slavery
Lincoln said no slavew expansion
Douglas said erase it all. -
The raid of Harper's Ferry arsenal
John Brown and his five sons took the arsenal but toppled military
Slaves did not assist in his revolt thus its failure to keep the arms.
John Brown is a radical abolistionist and a marytar in the North. -
Birth of the Conferate States of America
South Carolina is the 1st state to sucede from the Union
Many others follow in Febuary 1861
Based upon Lincoln's election to presidency -
The bombardment of Fort Sumter
1st shots fired in official civil war
Confederacy tries to raid it for arms.
Lincoln allowed it to be taken. -
Lincoln's Rally
CSA forms
LIncoln sends army in response to attack on Fort Sumter
Led 1st battle of civil war. Bull Run