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Wilmont Proviso
Attempt To Ban Slavery In The West. (Mexico) First US Attempt To Ban Slavery . -
Compromise Of 1850
A Group Of Five Bills Passed Dealing With The Issues Of Slavery.
California Requested To Enter The United States As A Free State. Upseting The Balance Between The North & South.
Henry Clay Introduces A Series Of Resolutions In Attepmt To Seek Compromise California Enterd The Union As A Free State. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Law Passed To Help Slave Holders Recapture Runaway Slaves. Recieved $10 For Returning The Slave.
Recieved $5 For Releasing The Defendant. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book Informing Of Slavery;
Written By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Caused Conflict Between North & South. -
Bleeding Kansas
Civil War Starts In Kansas ;
Lasted 4 Months, Causing 200 Deaths. Became The Rallying Cry For Anti-Slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People began Flooding Ino Kansas & Nebraska;
People Who Lived There Got To Choose Pro Slavery Or Slavery. First Attempt To Force The State Into Becoming A Free State. -
Dred Scott
A Slave That Sued For His Freedom ;
African Americans Were Not Considered People, But Property, And Could Not Sue. Increased Tension Between The North & South. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln & Douglas Debated About Slavery ;
Lincoln Lost The Election, But Became Nationaly Famous. Debated Slavery In 7 Cities In Front Of 12,000 People -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown's Plan To Free Slaves & Give Them Guns And Parade Through Town, Freeing Everyone. -
Election Of 1860
Abraham Lincoln Elected President With Support Of The Free States. Caused States In Deep South To Secede. -
Fort Sumter
President Lincoln Told Jefferson That He Was Sending Supplies To The Fort.
South Opened Fire; Forced To Surrender. War Had Begun.
