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American Colonization Society
Designed to help Africans return to Africa by colonizing it. -
Missouri Compromise
This agreement prevented slaveryin the former Louisiana territories except for Missouri. -
American Anti-Slaver Society
Help fight against slavery and help free slaves back to Africa -
The Liberty Party
They viewed the Constitution as an anti-slavery document. -
Mexican-American War Starts
The war was about the annextion of Mexico's Territories. the U.S. Captured Mexico city and won. -
Wilmot Proviso
This would have banned slavery in the territories aquired from Mexico in the American-Mexican war and in the future. -
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a political party that was against the expansion of slavery and consisted of people that were previously in the Whig Party. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 people that thought they could make a fortune but many of them returned back with just as little as they left with. -
The Compromise of 1850
A package of five bills passed in 1850. These bills defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the North reguarding the status of the territories. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Published
This is an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened them for settlement. This act allowed people in the territory to have slavery or to not have it. -
Sumner-Brooks Affair
Sumner denounced the Nebraska act because of Kansas's crimes. -
The Dred Scott Decision
A decision the Supreme Court made stating that the constitution did not protect the slaves and that they were not U.S. citizens. -
Licoln Douglas Debates
There was seven debates Between Lincoln whos was the republican candidate for senate in illinoise and Douglas who was the democratic candidate for senate. Every single debate was about slavery. -
The Election of 1860
After Lincoln had become president the southern states lead by South Carolina responded with declarations of seccesion.
