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Missouri Compromise
It admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.It maintained the balance of power between slave and free states. -
Gag Rule
The gage rule made it so senators from the north and the south of Congress could not debate over slavery in congress. It lasted 10 years. -
Wilmot Proviso
slavery will never be in lands won in the Mexican-American War. -
Harreit Tubman escapes slavery
She was a escaped slave who took the undrground railroad and then would go back to the south to help many more slaves escape. -
Compromise of 1850
The fugitive slave act was added and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
This book made northerners more angry about slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed or not in the new territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
It shaped the American politics and helped start the civil war. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas to become U.S. senator. -
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery but his rebellion failed. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected for president of the united states.