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19th Century
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Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay arranged the Missouri Compromise to maintain the balance between slave and free states.,John Taylor of New York regarding Arkansas Territory. -
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot proposal divided both parties along sectional lines. By the standards of his day, David Wilmot could be considered a racist. The Wilmot Proviso created great bitterness between North and South and helped crystallize the conflict over the extension of slavery. -
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay wrote the compromise of 1850, The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills that wanted to resolve the territorial and slavery, War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event, The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters, bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847, The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before .
