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missouri compromise
Admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state. -
compromise of 1850
caifornia and new mexico became free states and washington would not allow trading or selling slaves. -
fugtive slave act
required citizens in the north to help cacth runaway slaves. -
uncle tom's cabin published
a book describing slaves torture. -
kanas nebraska act
A bill that stated that states could allow slavery by popular sovereiginty. -
bleeding kanas
people who were against slavery and those who supported slavery moved to kansas to vote on whether kansas would allow slavery. there was a lot of violence kansas became a free state. -
dred scott decision
A slave named dred scott was taken to the north with his owner. After this owner died, he sued for his freedom, saying he was in a free state.The supreme court said he was not a citizen and that he could not sue. -
lincolin douglas debates
Stephen douglas was against slavery but believed it should be up to each state. Abraham lincolin was against slavery but believed Congress could'nt eliliminate slavery but keep it from spreading. The two men had several differences debates because they were running for senate. Slavery was the main topic. -
raid on Harper's ferry
jhon brown was against slavery. He led a small group of whites to try capture weapons in harpers ferry virgina the goal to arm slaves -
lincoln elected
people in the north wanted lincoln to be stricter on slavery. people in the south thought he was there enemy. He was elected president -
south secedes
secede means to break away. S.C. opposed to lincoln's`election and voted to break away. they did not want to be part of the united states. they were the first southern state to do this.