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Wilmot Proviso
The Act of Congress trying to stop the spread of slavery Signifigance : It Failed , but concerned the South -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise to keep to the balance of free and aslave states Signifigance : Managed to keep both sides satisified -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A written book by Harriet Beecher Stowe Signifigance : A book that became publicly known and spreaded the word of wanting to end slavery -
Kansas- Nebraksa Act
An Act to try to slove the problem of slavery in the Western Territories Signifigance : People were allowed to decide themselves wether their state would allow slavery ; Cause Flooding into Kansas And Nebraska -
Dred Scott Decision
A slave that sued for his freedom Signifigance : Resulted in Afircan Americans were not citizens so they could not sue & increases tension between northern and southern states -
Bleeding Kansas
Small Scale Civil War in Kansas Signifigance : Bleeding Kansas became a raly cry for anti-slavery -
Lincoln - Douglass Debates
Debates For Senator Of Illinois in 1858 Signifigance : Douglass Won , but Lincoln became nationally famous -
Harper's Ferry
John Browm's plan to seize the federal arsenal to stop slavery Signifigance : John Brown was captured and executed and pthe plan was unsuccessful -
Election of 1860
Election for the next president Signifigance : Lincoln won and resulted in the South seceding and creating their own government -
Fort Sumter
First Shots from the South that started the Civil War Signifigance : First Battle of the Civil War
