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Missouri Compromise
Allowed Missouri to enter Union as a slave stateand Maine to enter as a free state. Outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36 degrees 30` latitude -
Wilmot Proviso
A document stating that neither slaveryor involuntary servitude should ever exist in an party of the territory -
Compromise of 1850
California was able to enter Union as free state. Rest of Mexican Cession was divided into two territories; popular sovereignty would determine whether to allow slavery -
Fugitive Slave Act
Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
divide the remainder of Louisiana Purchase into two territories (Kansas & Nebraska) and allowed people to decide in each territory on slavery. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown and his men killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas -
John brown's raid
He and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes of starting a slave rebellion -
Fort Sumpter
Federal Outpost in Charleston, South Carolina that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War -
Battle of Antietam
Known as the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
A key battle that finally turned the tide against Confederates -
Appomattox Courthouse
General Lee surrened to General Grant, therefore ending the Civil War