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Fugitive slave act
All escaped slaves to the North must be returned to the masters. Anyone caught harboring slaves will be arrested. -
Compromise of 1850
California was admitted as afree state. However, there were stronger fugitive slave laws. -
Underground Railroad
Secret network of volunteers hide fugitive slaves to push them up north for safety -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A fiction book written by the white women Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was written to show the horros of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Turned the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska. White males would be able to vote whethter they wanted slavery or not -
Dred Scott v Sanford
Dred Scott v Sandford was a court case that decided slaves were property and could not be U.S. citizens -
Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, a white man from the north, and a few slaves raided harpers ferry for weapons and killed pro-slavery activists. -
John Brown's Hanging
John Brown was hanged for treason and became a martyr in the north and a villian in the south. -
South secession
South states secedded from the union strating December 20. Due to lincolns election -
Lincoln is elected president
Abraham Lincoln is elected president, beating Stephen A. Douglass
