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The Tallmage Admenment
James Tallmage proposed an admenment. The admenment said that Missouri could join the union but only as a free state. The southerners did not like this idea so they threw out the proposed admenment. -
The Missouri Compromise
As a result of the Missouri Compromise Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state to make both sides happy. In Missouri they had drawn a line called the 36,30 parallel, below their was slavery above slavery was prohibited. -
Statehood of California
In the late 1849's California applied for admission to the union as a free state the northerners welcomed the idea. The southerner's did not want this. -
Comprise Accepted
The comprise of 1850 addmitted california as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up with slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave law was a law that made both sides unhappy it was based on when a slave ran away the northerners had to return them but most never did it made the southerners very unhappy. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Nothing brought the horror's of slavery home to the norhterners more than the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe. It made millions of peoplel hate slavery. -
The Ostend Manifestio and the Kansas Nebraska Act
The Ostend Manifestio was a message to the secatary of state by three american diplomats who were meeting in ostend,belgium. -
Violence in Congress
After Chareles Sumner's speech against slavery Preston Brook's beat him with his can on the Senate floor. It took Sumner three in a half years to recover. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott struggle's for freedom but in the end and before the civil war all slaves are free in the north. -
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln's opponent in the senate race was senator Stephen Douglas. The Illinois senator saw no reason why they would just split the free and the slave states. Lincoln Challenged him to a slavery debate. -
The election of 1860
Lincoln won with 40% of votes the rest of the votes were split up between other nomine's. -
Seccesion
The south was leaving the UNION. -
CIVIL WAR BREAK'S OUT
THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
