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events leading to the civil war
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Compromise of 1850
It became a law in September of that year. It accomplished most of what Clay had wanted. California entered the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two territores. In these territores Utah and New Mexico the status of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It mandated the return of runaway slaves regardless of location within the Union where they were at the time of their discovery or capture. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe it was a powerful anti slavery novel she did not like slavery she wanted the abolishment of slavery. -
Kansas nebraska act
This divided the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories.Slavery would still be going on in the south but not the north. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown on the rapid Harpers Ferry was an Attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia -
Election of 1860
The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860 is commonly viwed as the beginning of a chain of events that erupted into civil war in April 1861
