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Missouri Compromise
A series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slace states and free states. The Missouri Compromise stressed the differences between the North and South regarding slavery, as did the election of Lincoln.The Missouri Compromise was a sensible and clear arrangement that simply fixed a line of latitude, North of which slavery would be illegal. It kept the peace for thirty years. Enacted the law of 36 30. Was broken by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Wilmot Proviso
An 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the war with Mexico. Angered Southern slave holders. It removed the right of slave holders to take their slaves which the regarded was their property. In any of the territories or states. -
Compromise of 1850
A series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slace states. The South believed there was no reason to Compromise over slavery. It did not actually lead to the Civil War it posponed it. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A novel published a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. Caused Northerners more anger toward southern slave holders. And to think more about slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Was an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. Broke the law established in the Missouri Compromise. -
Sack of Lawerence
A proslavery mob attacked the town of Lawrence Kansas in 1855. The attackers destroyed offices and the house of the governor of the antislavery government. Caused retaliation. -
Pottawatomie Massacre
To avenge the Sack of Lawerence John Brown and seven other followers went to the cabins of his proslavey neighbors and killed fove of them. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slace, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been take to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against Scott. The SCOTUS ruling was that humans were property. -
Election of 1860
Was the presidental election between Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell. Lincoln and Breckinridge were considered to have the most extreme views on slavery. Douglas and Bell were considered
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South Carolina Seceding from the Union
It was the first of eleven states to secede from the Union. Later they formed the Confederate States of America with leader Jefferson Davis. Caused many problems with the North and the Union.
