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Missouri Compromise
The Compromise was a line under Missouri that separated slave and free states. It was there so that any states under the line were slave states. Any above it were free states. Missouri was a slave state though, because the north added Maine. That was to balance out congress. It involved all of the incoming states. -
The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. It was between congress and David Wilmot. He introduced this idea to House of representatives. Congress eventually denied it, but it angered pro-slave people that they even thought about approving it. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. Five different people presented the five different laws. It was between Henry Clay and Congress. Henry wanted to solve the problem of slavery. It made southerners extremely angry that California was going to be a free state and Texas was giving up its land. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It was between slaves and slave owners. It was made so that slave owners could take back their slaves or accuse others of running away and take them. The people could be anywhere in the country and still be brought back. Many ex-slaves that were free, now were being sent back into slavery with their masters. It made people write books about it and revolt against the government. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book. It is was to show how the horrors of slavery were so bad. Abraham Lincoln met her after and said,”So you’re the little woman who started all of this.
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Nebraska-Kansas Act
Nebraska and Kansas let people come from any states and vote on whether it should be a free or slave state. People fought each other to show that one side was right. It made no other state let this happen because it was so bad. -
Dred Scott v.s. Sanford
An ex-slave (Dred Scott) tried suing John Sanford for bringing him to a non-slave state as a slave. He sued him in congress but eventually got denied. This was because he was a slave meaning that he couldn’t sue Sanford. This basically erased history, because it meant that slaves could be brought to the north. -
Licoln-Douglas Debate
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were in a debate for senate of Illinois. There were seven different spots in Illinois where they met and battled. Abraham would eventually win and later become the president of the U.S. If Lincoln would have lost, he may have never been the president and history would have changed. -
John Brown’s Revolt
It was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It made more revolts happen in different areas. John Brown was hung after the battle stopped, but he had made his point around the country by then. -
Election of 1860
In 1860, Lincoln won the party’s presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern states of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
Southern Secession
Abraham Lincoln won the election. This caused some states in the south decided to secede from the union because they thought that the government was against them. These states included Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia. This would start the American Civil War on April 12th, 1861.
