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Slavery Concern
Expansion of slavery in territories caused controversy between the NORTH and the SOUTH. -
Wilmot Proviso
Government tried to prohibit slaveryin the Mexican Cession Territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom.
African Americans were not citizens and could not sue. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay was asked to write the Compromise of 1850. Terms of Compromise that north liked: California admitted as a free state; Slave trade abolished.Terms of the compromise that South liked:Strong fugitive slave law. -
uncle toms cabin
uncle toms cabin.
story calling for an end to slavery. -
kansas-nabraska act
people in territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery.
people began flooding into kansas and nebraska. -
Period: to
Bleeding Kansas
Small scale Civil War. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln and Doulass debated over slavery.
Lincoln said slavery was illegal,lost election,but became nationally famous. -
HARPERS FERRY
Raid on Harper's Ferry.
-John Brown seized the federal arsenal to stir up a slave revolt in V.A. and end slavery. -
Election of 1860
president election.
- lincoln promised to keep slabery from spreading. -
fort sumter
first shots were fired.
put troops on the rio grande.
