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Compromise of 1850
In the Compromise of 1850, the South recieved the Fugivitve Slave law. This law stated that all runaway slaves in the north, must be shipped back to there owner.The North had slave trade in Disctric of Columbia abolished. -
Willmot Proviso
They needed some sort of document in oreder to save the union. Therefore, they made the WIlmot Proviso. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book published in 1852.This book taught people about how hard slavery was for the slaves. Before this book alot of people in the South never fully understood how it was at the time. -
Kansas-Nesbraska Act
This act allowed Kansas and Nesbraska's population to vote to allow slavery or not.People soon flooded theese states in order to get say in this decision. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the rally cry for anti-slavery and Republican party. This happend shortly after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott is a run away slave who tried to sue for his freedom.The court ruled that slaves weren't citizens , therefore they were not abled to sue, -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
This was to election for Senator of Illinois in 1858. Abraham Lincoln said that Slavery was wrong, yet legal in this debate. Although Lincoln didnt win this debate, he did become nationally famous, -
Election of 1860
This is the elcetion That Lincoln won. The south threathend to seced form the Union. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the first battle that set off the Civil War.
