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He thought that the south would gain to much power so he proposed that congress ban slavery.
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To please the North California was declared a free state, and to please the south they got a stronger fugitive slave act.
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This is a book about a nice enslaved man who is abused by Simon Legree.
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Douglas wanted to see a railroad built from Illinois through Nebraska to the Pacific Coast.
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His 5 sons and him went to a proslavery place and killed 5 pro slavery men.
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Scott sued for his freedom, and he said he was free because he lived in a place where slavery was illegal. One person said that he couldn’t sue because he was African American.
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Lincoln got back into politics after the Kansas Nebraska Act, he had a rivalry with the Illinois senator. Douglas won.
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His goal was to seize guns from where they were raiding, and he thought the slaves would join him. Brown was captured and killed.
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He was the first republican president to ever win.
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It was the first state to secede from the union, after this they felt like they didn’t have a voice anymore.
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They used the US Constitution as a model for theirs, the president would serve for 6 years, and prohibited slave trade
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The troops that were there got cut off from food to surrender. On April 12 they opened fire to the fort, and after 34 hours the fort was on fire.