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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was created by Henry Clay it describes that a invisible line dictates slavery anything above the line is free below the line is slavery. -
Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was idea that there would be no slavery in the Mexican Cession. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was the compromise that California is a free state and Utah and Arizona get to choose to be free or slave by popular sovereignty. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was made to be law that in the north if you find a slave you have to give it back to the southern slave owners. If you were caught harboring a slave you would have to pay a hefty fine. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written by a abolitionist Quaker from the north. It split the country greatly. The north was astonished by how the south treat their slaves. The south denied it saying it was all fiction. -
Kansas Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
The US government had Nebraska and Kansas vote on to be free or slave. People from free states and southern states flocked to Kansas to vote on slavery. there was some violence and a handful of people died. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott case is the supreme court case about a slave who wanted to be free after his master died. He was rejected because territories have no laws about slaves and he was not a citizen so he could appeal to the supreme court. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
Lincoln and Douglas had different views on slavery and were both going into the senate. They went around the US debating in sport event like environments. There was a big seperation at the debates and some people got out of hand. -
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John Brown's Raid
John Brown’s raid is when a faithful abolitionist named john brown wanted to free slaves in the south by force he took over a large sum of weapons and asked the slaves to join him none of them did. John Brown was then executed for his crimes -
Lincoln's Election of 1860
The election of 1860 had 4 candidates two democrats, a republican, and a constitutional party member. The democrats wanted slavery to be popular sovereignty in the north and just slavery in the south. The Republicans were against slavery. And the Constitutional party wanted slavery everywhere. In the end Lincoln won the election. After that south carolina left the united states. -
Southern Secession
After Lincoln's election South Carolina left the United States and wanted the commander at Fort Sumter to surrender the commander didn’t and stayed Lincoln wanted to supply the fort but the new confederate president Jefferson Davis didn’t want these supplies to get to the fort so he sent the state militia in to fort sumter and they attacked. During all of this more states left the union. When the fort was destroyed the commander surrendered and the south had captured fort sumter.
