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The Missouri compromise was the compromise that if any other places wanted to become a state and were above the line they would be free. If states became a state below the line they became a slave state. -
The compromise of 1850 was the ending to selling slaves in Washington, but slave states could still sell slaves to each other. -
This act forced northern people to catch fugitive slaves if they saw them. -
This was a book that became one of the most important book in American history because it was a story about an enslaved person. -
They hoped Kansas would become an enslaved state because the Kansas-Nebraska act made slavery spread to states who had been free for 30 years, but only if the states agreed. -
Scott was a slave that moved to a free state, but still worked for his owner. An antislavery lawyer fought and said since he was in a free state he should be free. -
Brown encourage the slaves to revolt and didn't want slave uprising, but was later found to be a murderer. -
South Carolina became the first state every to secedes (to break free from slavery) -
Abraham Lincoln got elected president in 1860 because the northern people outvoted the southern people, but there were 10 states that he was not on the ballot for.