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Wilmot Proviso
Banned slavery in the Mexican Cession [Didn't work]
Important cause the U.S. tried to stop slavery -
Compromise of 1850
Keep the balance betwwen slave states and free states Daniel Webster began lokking for thingg the north and south would agree to a compromise on so that we could keep americians from going to war for awhile longer. -
Fugitive slave law
Law passed 1850 to help slave holders recapture runaway slaves
5 dollars for releasing a defent
10 dollars for returning the slaves -
1852 uncle toms cabin
North said that slavery was a horrible thing and that it was unacceptable.
South felt like it was yankee abolitionist propanda: north was lying about slavery -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People in the territories could decide for themselves
Weather their states would allow slaves
People began flooding into Kansas and Nebraska
Solve problem in slavery in west -
Bleeding Kansas
Allowed popular sovereighty in Kansas and Nebraska Became the rally cry for the anti slavery northerners and the political partys called the republicans started chopping people up -
Dred Scott
Scott was a slave that sued for freedom Blacks were not people and they could not sue in the court of law This increased tension between northern and southern states -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown= seized the fedrealist arsenal
Plan=stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery
Brown became a [hero] in the cause of slavery
He tried to free the slaves but died -
Lincoln-Doulas Debates
Both running for sentors of Illonois in 1858
Debated slavery in 7 cities
Lincoln positive was legal
Slavery was wrong but legal
Debated slavery
Lincoln lost the election but was famous -
Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the counntry lived in.
Lincoln won the election
Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading to the new territories.
Southern states started to secede -
Fort Sumter
The south open fire then the north surrendered Then the war has begun
