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Made it so the new states went 50/50 on adding slave and free states. -
Rebellion of African American group led by Nat Turner and was formed and killed 55-65 white slave owners. -
The Wilot Proviso was an unsuccessful proposal in the U.S Congress to ban slavery in territory gained from Mexico. -
The Mexican-American War was fought directly around and inside Texas, New Mexico, California, and Northern and Central Mexico. -
The Gold Rush originated in California by James Marshall and news spread like a wildfire causing many others to go to California. -
A new law that allowed people to return runaway slaves to where they came from. -
Escaped slavery in 1849 and helped other slaves escape from the years 1850-1860 making a total of 13 trips saving an estimated 70 enslaved people. -
California was admitted as a free state as well as New Mexico and Utah. -
It was a story about slavery and the true meaning of what slavery was and was truly broken down to show each part of slavery. -
A series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas territory. -
Banned slavery in the North and could be considered the setting point of the Civil War. -
Fight for freed African American Slaves to be considered citizens and have Natural Human Rights. -
Big debates over slavery and its influence on American society -
The effort by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave revolt in the Southern States by taking over the U.S arsenal in Harpers Ferry Virginia -
The election that Abraham Lincoln won and started the Lincoln Era. -
After Lincoln became President, S.C became the first state to secede from the union.