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Missouri comprmise
Agreement put forward by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. The Compromise also drew an imaginary line at 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, dividing the new Louisiana Territory into two areas, one north and one south. -
Wimot Provise
The Wilmot Proviso refers to a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the U.S. at the conclusion of the Mexican War. It was amendment to a funding bill that was created by President James K. Polk and was made to establish and fund peace negotiations with Mexico for a Treaty to end the War. -
Comprimise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. It was a set of five bills proposed by Republican Senator Henry Clay and supported by his counterparts Daniel Webster and John Calhoun. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow -
Dred Scott Case
Definition of the Dred Scott Case from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. the Dred Scott Case. a US Supreme Court decision in 1857 that a slave was not a citizen and could not begin a legal case against anyone -
John Brown’s Raid
was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
