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The Missouri Comprmise
Pro slavery and anti slavery staet arguing and these arguments get heated. -
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The Mexican War
A war caused between the untied state and meixco because mexico thought they owned land that america had. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This was one most contrversonial elements of the 1850 compromise and heighttened nothern fears of slavert power conspiracy. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Douglas hoped that the formula of '' popular sovereginty'' would ease tension over the issue of human bondage and he ouldnt have to take a side. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Bleegin Summer Brooks - Summer fight
With no warning Brooks rushed foward and started beating the unsuspected Summer savagely with a gold-tipped wooden cane. -
Dred Scott Decision
Taney hoped that his ruling would settle the slavery question once it immediatley spurred vehemnet dissent from anti-slavery elements in the North. -
Election of 1860
Before Lincoln inaugration, seven Southern states declared their declared their secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
in 1861 General P,G.T. Beaureguard was in command of the cinfederate forces around Charleston Harbor. THey opened fired on theUnion garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
Emancipation Proclamantion
President Abraham Lincoln ussued Emancipation on January 1 1863 as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war -
Battle of Gettysburg
After his success at Chancellorsville in Virgina in May 1863, Lee his army through his army through the Shenanhoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North. The Gettysburg Campain -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate.