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compromise of 1850
1850 Compromise of 1850 allows for the admission of California as a free state and applies the notion of “popular sovereignty” to the Utah and New Mexico territories. Congress abolishes the slave trade in the District of Columbia, but strengthens the Fugitive Slave law. -
The under ground railroad
the underground railroad helped thousands of slaves escape bondage. By one estimate, 100,000 slaves escaped from bondage in the South -
Fugitive slave act
. The Fugitive Slave Act's chief purpose was to track fugitive slaves who had runaway to northern states, capture them, and consequently return them to their proper southern owners. This law placed fugitive slave cases under the exclusive authority of the United States Federal Government. -
personal liberty laws
The personal liberty laws were laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Different laws did this in different ways, including allowing jury trials for escaped slaves and forbidding state authorities from cooperating in their capture and return. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to the outbreak of war by personalizing the political and economic arguments about slavery. Stowe's informal, conversational writing style inspired people in a way that political speeches, tracts and newspapers accounts could not -
kansas-nabraska act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for black settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
kansas bleeding
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott lost his case which was proving that he should be free becasue he had been as a slave while living in a free state. They say his petion could not be seen becasue he did not hold any property. He was still a lsave becasue slaves were to be consideced property. This furthred there efforts to fight against slaves -
John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry
John Brown radical abolition ist who had been involved in anti- slavery violence in kansas, on october 16. He led a group of seventeen including 5 black members to go raid the arsencl located in harpers farry. His goal was to start a slave up riseing. -
Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President
Even though his views about slavery were considered moderate during the nomination and election, South Carolina had warned it would secede if he won Lincoln agreed with the majority of the Republican Party that the South was becoming too powerful
