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The north gets Maine and all the land above the 36 30 line, and the South gets Missouri and everything below the 36 30 line -
Slaves led a rebellion by killing their slave owners & their families, causing everyone involved to be executed and stricter restrictions upon slaves -
California is introduced as a free state, and the slave trade is banned in D.C, and every state in the Mexican Cession and stronger fugitive slave laws would be passed -
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe with the purpose of showing the horrors of slavery. It caused many northerners to become abolitionists. -
They divided the land up into Kansas and Nebraska, and they would decide if it was a slave or a free state by popular sovereignty
this led to "Bleeding Kansas" because slavery was no longer banned, making northerners outrage, turning it into a battleground over slavery -
They had ruled that African Americans were not citizens, ruling them a property meaning living on free land did not make you free.
Also meant that they couldn't sue -
The raid was at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to get guns. He was captured and then charged with murder, treason and conspiracy -
Abraham Lincoln was elected president, because of this many southern states had started to leave. His first act as president was to make it illegal to secede. then the civil war broke out and yada yada