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Missouri Compromise
In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was a war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. To keep the peace, Congress aaranged a two-part compromise, and made Missouri a free state -
Abolitionist Movement
Aboitionist Movent is about people that believe slavery was wrong and they should end it. -
The Fugitive Slave Acts
The Fugitive Slave Acts were federal laws that allowed slave owner to capture and return runaway slaves back to there owners -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel about eas aexperince of being a slave, Reads became aware of the horrors of slavery more than ever before. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state whom tried suing the Surpreme court for freedom, but unfortunately the Surpreme court it ruled that if your black or have any black blood you are not considered an citizen -
John Brown
John Brown was a abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. -
The Election Of 1860
Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the black replubicans southern Democrats thought that Douglas was a traitor because of his support of popular sovereignty. But at the end of the election Abraham Lincoln won -
Southern Secession
Secession was the series of events that began on December 20, in 1860 ,of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union
