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wilmot proviso
trying to stop slavery in the mexican cession territory out west, excluding texas. wanted to scare the southern states. -
compromise of 1850
congress argued about what to do with all the new territory we had gotton from mexico.california was ammitted as a free state. utah and mexico amitted as slave states.and fugitive slave laws during this time. kept the balance between the slave states and the free states but helped them not go to war -
Fugitive slave law
law was passed in 1850 to help slave holders recapture runaway slaves. -
uncle toms cabin
Story wrote by harriet beecher stowe - story of calling an end to slavery -
kansas nebraska act
law passed to try to solve the problemof slavery in the western territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and Abolishionist faught each other with guns and swords. -
dred scott
Dred scott was a slave that sued for his freedom after briefly living with his owner on free soil in the north.
supreme court said african americans were not citizen and could not sue slaves who were property. incresed tension between the northern and southern states. -
lincon douglas debates
licon and douglas debates slavery, lincon was anti-slavery.slavery was wrong but legal.Lincon lost the election but became nationally famous. -
harpers ferry
john brown siezed the federal arsensal plan was to stir up a slave. -
election of 1860
voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the united states they lived in. lincin promissed to keep slavery from spreading into new territories. lincon won the election -
fort sumter
north surrendered because south attaked lincon was president.
