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Free soil party
The free soil party posed as a problem to the south the party gaining favor for their canidate The former president of the time Martin Van Buren -
California becoming a state
With california gaining the nesesitys for becoming a state it would set the balance off and give one side an advantage -
Compromise of 1850
With the introduction of the fugitive slave act in the bill it made it so any black accused of being a runaway could be sent back which in turn set of the abolitionists -
Uncle toms cabin
The book was about the authors own encounters with slaves. It showed that what they go through and made the abolitionists start to fight. -
Kansas Nebraska act
This act made the abolitionists angered because they though it was a voilation to their pledge and they thought it made it a corrupt area -
Bleeding kansas
With the pro-slavery government saying that the free soil party commited treason they decided to try and find them when the didn't they destroyed Lawerence. -
Chrales sumner's speeh "The crime against Kansas"
The way he was able to make them angry was of him blaming many of the people in the confederacy in turn this caused Preston Brooks to attack him and make the union outraged -
Pottawatomie massacere
After the attack on lawerence the abolitionist John Brown and his sons took it to drastic measures by pulling five men from their homes and then killing them. This lead to the civil war of kansas with the previous ttack on lawerence -
The dread scott decision
With a slave holding family needing to find a missing slave they bought dreed into court and with the founder beliveing that africans and no rights made it so he could not file. In the end with the missiouri compromise he was sent back to his owner -
John Browns raid
On the night of October 16 1859 John brown attacked harpers ferry which was a porly deffended store hosue to get weapons to start a slave revolution in the after math all of his sons died and he was sentanced to death.