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Wilmot Proviso
Congress tried to stop the spread or slavery.It failed, but the south is concerned. -
Compromise of 1850
A compromise that made California free state and abolished slave trade in D.C. but the 2 territories could vote on which kind of state to become. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book about anti slavery that showed the life of slaves and it further seperated the North and South. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
People in the new territories could decied wheather to be a free or slve state and this caused people to flood to the new territories . -
Bleeding Kansas
Anti slavery vs. pro slavery in Kansas causing a small scale civil war. -
Dred Scott Desicion
Dred Scott sued in the Supreme Court for his freedom and lost because he was black therefore not a citizen. -
Lincoln - Douglass Debate
2 men lincoln and Douglass were running for senator of Illonios. Lincoln said that slavery was wrong but leagal and douglass disagreed. Lincoln became famoous leading him to presidency. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown planned to free all the slaves by stealing guns and having them revolt. The plan failed and John Brown and 9 other men got hanged. This gave an idea that this was possible to remove slavery. -
Election of 1860
The election between Lincoln and hammelton. You voted by which side of the country you lived on. This cause south Carolina to secede ignighting the civil war. -
Fort Sumter
The first battle of the Civil War that caused the war to explode into anti slavery and slavery.
