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wilmot proviso
trying to stop slavery in new territory -
compromise of 1850
congress argued about what to do with all the new territory -
fugitive slave law
law passed to help slave holders recapture runaway slave -
nullification
People in the North were so outraged at being forced to act as slave catchers that they began to talk again about Nullification -
uncle tom's cabin
story calling for the end of slavery -
kansas nebraska act
poeple in there state would decide for themselve to be slave or anti-slave -
Bleading Kansas
pro slavery and abolishinist fought in kansas a small civil war happened in kansas -
dred scott
slave sued for his freedom african americans were not citizen and could not sued -
lincoln douglas debate
dabate over slavery
lincoln lost the election -
harper's ferry
john browm seized federal arsenal -
election of 1860
lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into new territory lincoln won the election -
fort sumter
attack on fort sumter started the civil war the south secceded and became the confederate