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Period: to
19TH CENTURY
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MISSOUIRI COMPROMISE
Missouri: slave state
Maine: free state
36’30” Line: Free Above; Slave Below -
WILMOT PROVISO
mid-1840’s)
Banned Slavery in the Mexican Cession -
COMPROMISE OF 1850
California: free state
New Mexico: slave state
Texas could be separated into 5 other states
Ban Slave Trade in Washington DC
New Fugitive Slave Law -
KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT OF 1854
settlers and entrepreneurs wanted to move into the area now known as Nebraska. However, until the area was organized as a territory, settlers would not move there because they could not legally hold a claim -
BLEEDING KANSAS
Under the terms of the act, two territories were to be formed, Kansas and Nebraska. One would presumably become a slave state and the other a free state. Popular sovereignty would prevail and it was assumed that slave-owning Southerners would occupy Kansas and make it a slave state, while free state advocates would settle Nebraska. Things worked out as anticipated in Nebraska, but not in Kansas -
DREDD SCOTT CASE
Dred Scott v. Sandford, , was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether slave or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an African American slave -
JOHN BROWNS RAID
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called Harper's Ferry with an apostrophe-s.) 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