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Wilmont Proviso
Te attempt to band slavery in the West. (Mexico) -
Compromise of 1850
The Northerners liked that California was different & that there was no slave trade in DC. The Southerners liked the Fugitive Slave Law & the slave states voting right. It was to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Law
A law that helped slave holders recapture runaway/escaped slaves. Granted $10 for returning slave & $5 for releasing the defendent. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An informatory book on slavery written by: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Book caused a conflict between North & South. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People began to flood into Kansa & Nebraska. The peoples choice were: Pro-Slavery or Slavery. First try on forcing a state to become a free state. -
Bleeding Kansas
Smale scale civil war errupted in Kansas Rally cry for the anti-slavery Northerners & the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott Decison
A slave that sued for his freedom.
He learned: "African Americans wer'nt considerd people, they were property, ant they couldnt sue in the court of law. These statements caused more tention between the North & South. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The two men argued about slavery. Licoln may have lost the election, but he was soon Nationally Famous. They debated slavery in 7 cities & in the front of a total of 12,000 people. -
Harper's Ferry
The idea of John Browns; To free the slaves & give them guns to parade through town. He want eveyone to be free. -
Election of 1860
Free states help Abraham Linlcon win presidency. Cause of the slave states seceding. -
Fort Sumter
President Lincoln told Jefferson that she was sending supplies to the fort. South opened fire, then fored to surrender; the war had begun.
