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19th Century
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missour compromise
Henry Clay came up with missour compromise that allows everything under the 36'30 line is salve and everything above 36'30 is free.the key points were that missour wanted to be a slave state and maine decided to be a free state -
Wilmont Proviso
David Wilmot banned slavery in the mexican cession. he wanted mexico to free state and no slaves. also it was an amendent to the bill. -
Compromise of 1850
herny clay decied to break down texas into 5 secetion. because california wanted to become a free state and mexico a slave state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas opponent in the influential Lincoln-Douglas debates–the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the aftermath of the act’s passage led to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas, and led to the American Civil War. -
Bleeding Kansas
In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas be -
Dred Scott Case
Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks slaves as well as free were not and could never become citizens of the United States.Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. the rulings all confirmed verdict further inflamed the irrepressible differences in America over the issue of slavery. -
John Brown’s Raid
historythe location of the raid was at the harper ferry. John Brown and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country.
