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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in mexican cession and the slave owners are scared. -
Compromise of 1850
admission of a free state, slave being sold in DC, Utah and New Mexico being admitted as a slave state. Slave auction washington D.C -
Fugitive slave law 1850
To help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
Result they managed to keep both sides satisfied & prevented a permanent split before the Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Story calling for an end to slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Political result of K-N Act was that people in the territories could decide for themselves (popular sovereignty) whether their state would allow slavery.
Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery people began flooding into Kansas and Nebraska -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and abiolition fought with guns and swords alot of peopl died.. small scale civil war in kansas -
Dred Scott
Antislave owner dies he fights for is freedom they said slaves cant sue becouse they are proparty -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass were running for Senator of Illinois in 1858. Debated slavery in seven cities, in front of crowds of 12,000. Lincoln’s position was antislavery. He said Slavery was wrong but legal. Protected by the Constitution. Slavery could not be abolished were it existed. Slavery should not be expanded.
Lincoln lost the election, but became nationally famous -
Harper's Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown and his followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Killed 4 people in the action. Plan=stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery. It didn’t work, the slaves did not revolt.
John Brown was captured, tried, found guilty of murder and executed along with 10 other men
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Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in. Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into the new territories. -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln notified Jefferson Davis (President of the Confederate States of America) that he was sending supplies to the fort. South opened fire on April 12, 1861 and the Union forces, being under-supplied, had to surrender. Result? War had begun!
