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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession Territory out West, excluding Texas. Texas already had slavery so they were'nt going to mess with Texas Congress refused to pass the Proviso started to scare the slave owners Proviso didn't pass led to the certain of the free -
Compromise of 1850
Congress argued about what to do with all the new territory we had gotten from Mexico they didn't go to war. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Law passed in 1850 to help slave holders racapture runaway slaves They managed to keep both sides satisfied and prvent a permanent split before the civil war. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe story calling for an end of slavery north decided:slavery is horrible,cruel and unaccepteble south felt like it was: Yankee Abolition Proganda North America was lying about slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Law passed to try to save the problem of slavery in the Western territory people in the territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery people began floding into Kansas and Nebraska the people decided if they want to have slaves or not -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro-slavery and abolitonists fought and 200 people died a small civil war -
Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom after briefly living without an owner the judgement decides that slaves were property -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A debated slavery in seven cities in front of crowds of 12,000 Lincoln's position was antislavery Slavery should not be expanded Lincoln lost the election -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln ans Stephen A. debated slavery in seven cities in front f crowds of 12,000 Lincoln's position was antislavery Slavery should not be expanded lincoln lost the election -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown siezed the federal arsenal plan= stir up a slve revolution Virginia and end slavery Brown became a martyr (hero) in the cause of slavery -
Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in Southern states seceded -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln notified sending supplies to the fort had to surrender war had began
