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Maine admitted to being a free state while Missouri chose to become a slave state.This forced a compromise making a invisible line through the U.S. at the 36x30 line. All south states would be slave and all north would be free. Escaped slaves could be taken back to the south -
This was a slave rebellion in South Virginia witch killed 60 people -
In this compromise california become free state. All other new states could choose if they wanted to be free or slave with popular sovereignty and now its a crime to help a slave run away. Texas gets paid 10 million to give up some land for new mexico and pays its debt off. -
A book about the horrors of slavery witch the south viewed as propaganda -
Nebraska was divided in half so there was 2 territories each territories would be decided by popular sovereignty the results were Bleeding of Kansas, the democrats lost support and were pro slavery, and republican were against slavery. -
Supreme court ruled that people of african ancestry were not citizens and could not sue they also ruled the missouri compromise was not legal. -
Lincoln was elected and ,Republicans promised to end the spread of slavery, GIve free land in the west. Southern states come back to the union and lincoln's first act was to make secession illegal. Later lincoln was assassinated in a theater.