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Civil Wardece

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  • Compromise of 1850

    Effort by congress to settle several issues of slavery

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    passed by the congress to return runaway slaves. people who harbored slaves where now subject for punishment

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication

    Harriet Beecher Stowe published the controversial book in 1852.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Act to make kansas and nebraska states

  • Sumner attacks Brooks in Senate

    senator brooks attacked northen congressman sumner about the expansion of slavery.

  • Birth of the Republican Party

    former members of the whig party establish a new party.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Court ruled Dred Scott not a free man after he had lived in the free state of Illinois.

  • John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown led a small army of 18 men into Harpers Ferry Virginia.

  • Election of 1860

    the election of 1860 between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Beckinridge.

  • Shots Fired at Fort Sumter, SC

    First shots fired of the Civil War