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Declaration of Indepence
This proclomation was made by the second American Continental Congress. This documents main cause was to have freedom and indepence of the 13 colonies from Britain. -
Slavery
Forced manual labor that African American People had to do because another man had absolute power of them. -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
When Missouri became a slave state but Maine on the other hand became a free state. The north and the sound had set boundaries of where a slave state was and where a free state is located. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Dred Scott sued the state about how he is a free man. He was a slave of John Emerson. His case went to supreme court and got rejected because they said he had no rights and he was not even a citizen. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This act was nicknamed the bloodhound act by the Abolitionist because of the blood hounds that use to track down the run away slaves. This act consist of runaway slaves would be returned to there rightful owner if they were found. -
Compromise of 1850
This compromise is when California became the 16th free state which man everything not equal. The slave trade was ended in Washinton. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book that Harriot Beecher Stoweshow wrote. This book was a fictional plantation story. The south did not appreciate this book at all but the north did. -
Lincoln's Election
Abraham Lincoln is elected into office for the United States of America.