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Wilmot Proviso
Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery.
Failed, but South was still concerned. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay came up with the compromise to settle the North and South dispiutes against which states became slave and free states. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which called to end slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The people in the territories decide for themselves, everyone started to move into Kansas and Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
A small scale civil war broke out in Kansas, their rallying cry was "Bleeding Kansas" -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court decided that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue. It increased tension between North and South. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Both running for Senator of Illinois. Lincoln lost, but it helped spread him nationally. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown seized a federal arsenal and started a slave revolt, but it failed. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln promised to keep slavery from sreading into new territories. He won the election. Southern states began to secede, calling themselves the Confederate States of America. -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln sent supplies to the Fort when the South opened fire on them, which set off the Civil War.
