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Missouri Compromise
It let Missouri in as a slave state and Maine as a free state and let in anything as a state above this line as a free state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
It was when Nat Turner lead a rebellion of enslaved people that took place in Virginia,. -
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The Gag Rule
It was when the House of Representatives said that there was going to be no talk of slavery in the house. -
Wilmot Proviso
It was a proposal made to allow slavery in the territory in the U.S. as a result of the Mexican American War. -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
It was when she was afraid that her owner was going sell her to a plantation down in the south, and she escaped using the underground railroad. -
Compromise of 1850
It was to inter California as a free, let Utah and New Mexico choose if they want slavery or not, but they can't trade slaves with slaves from Washington D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
It was when Harriet Beecher Stowe created a story about slavery and how badly the slaves were treated. -
Nebraska-Kansas Act
It repealed the Missouri Compromise and let slavery into the hands of the people that lived in Nebraska and Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was when the people from the south came and fought to have slavery and the people from the north came to fight against slavery and they fought -
Dred Scott Decision
It was when a slave, thought that he should be freed because he went to Wisconsin a free state and then when they left thought that he should be freed and the supreme court ruled that he wasn't a citizen and couldn't file to be freed. -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
It was when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, where debating for the U.S. senate and the main issue was slavery. -
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
It was when he was tired of waiting for the federal government to do anything about slavery and he took it into his own hands and took over the ferry and gave guns to the slaves and let them fight every white person that liked slavery. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
It was when Abraham Lincoln was voted president of the United States even when 10 southern states didn't have him on the ballot.