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Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
where the slave owners in the west have a vote on the slave issue -
Compromise of 1850
senator Henry clay came up with some resolutions to attempt a compromise between the north and south -
Fugitive Slave Law
it was Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti- slavery states until the admission of Maine as an anti slavery state. After becoming a pro slave state it allowed for imaginary line to be drawn dividing the former Louisiana territory and anti slavery divisions. This was ended after the Kansas- Nebraska act of 1854 -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
it allowed people in the border between Kansas and Nebraska to determine if they want to have slaves or not -
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election of the 1860
Lincoln was running for president as a republican, he wanted to free slaves not for the well being of the slaves but for the well being of the country to keep the country together. -
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Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the united states ran as a republican was the president that freed slaves -
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Battle of Antietam
One of the biggest bloodiest one day battle in history 22,717 was dead wounded or missing. -
Emancipation Proclamation
a change in legal status by Lincoln that made over 3 million slaves in the south free -
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battle of Gettysburg
after a great victory against the Union at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania where the confederates crossed paths with them in the cross roads at Gettysburg where lee called an attack with less than 15,000 troops where the enemy was stationed at cemetery ridge. -
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out in route to Harpers Ferry. to steal the the federal armory and arsenal.