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- Newly acquired Western territory was fought over which led to a compromise
- Texas was paid $10 Million to scale back land claims
- California was now a free state, Washington D.C. had to end the slave trade within the city
- Stricter Fugitive slave act passes
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-Newly acquired Western land led to compromise
-California was now a free state, and Washington D.C. had to end slave trade within the city
-Stricter Fugitive Slave Act passed -
-Act that said all slaves must be returned to their masters
-Any person that was caught helping a slave could subject up to 6 months of jail time
-Congress made it illegal to assist then and the North felt this was a way of expanding power and reach of slavery -
-Harriet Beecher Stowe sold over 3000,00 copies in the first year and 2 million+ copies within five years
-About a kind slave treated terribly by his master
-Changed peoples views and opened their eyes, many joined the abolitionist movement -
-This act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery with popular sovereignty
- Kansas isn torn in half between pro and anti slave. Became known as "Bleeding Kansas" -
-Dred Scott was ruled as property not a citizen by the Supreme Court
- This ruling it declared the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Northern territories was unconstitutional -
-Group of men were led by John Brown to attack the weapons arsenal at Harper's Ferry
-The raid failed and Brown was captured and hanged
-Becomes and martyr in the North and the Souths see how far they will go to end slavery -
-Was the only candidate against slavery, and won. But the election show how divided the country was.
-None of the southern states voted for him, and the South started to secede
-The election pushed the nation to the brink of war -
-The South fired on the fort in South Carolina as the Union was trying to resupply it
-The Union was outnumbered and were almost out of food and supplies
-The war had begun, and Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers