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The American Colonization Society Forms
Support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa, One group was the slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America. -
Missouri Compromise
Act passed by U.S congress admitting Missouri to the Union as the 24th state. Agreement put forward by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and maine to enter the union as a free state. -
The American Anti- Slavery Society forms
An abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Both white southeners and northeners of slaverys inhumanity. -
Liberty Party Forms
The first Anti-Slavery party they have ever had. Birney, their presidential candidate in 1840, recieved a little more the 7,000 votes. -
The Mexican American War
It was a dramatic growth of the United States during this year. This was a comflict between United States of America and Mexico. -
Wilmot Proviso
Amendment to a bill put before the United States. It provided an appropriation of 2 million to enable president polk. -
The Dred Scott Decision
He has went to trial to sue for his own freedom. Were not and could never become citizens of United States. -
California Gold rush
It had been the most significant event that has ever happened in California. Gold fields and mining camps. -
The Free soil Party Forms
It had been absorbed into the newly formed republican party. 12 congressmen but in presidential. -
The Compromise of 1850
This was the package of five bills. -
Uncle Toms Cabin was Published
The novel that was writtens had sold 30,000 copies in three months. Helped lay the ground work for the Civil War. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Cheated territories of Kansas. Opened new lands for settlement. -
The Sumner Brooks Affiar
The legislative branch (Congress). Most thorough phillipic ever uttered in a legislative body. -
The Lincoln Douglas Debates
A Series of former political debates between the challenger. A democrat was the incumbent senator.
