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The compromise of 1850 was a series of bills or laws that mainly addressed slavery. The compromise prohibited slave trade in the District of Columbia it also settled a Texas boundary dispute, and made a stricter fugitive slave act.
The fugitive slave act required citizens and officials in the free states to help capture and return enslaved people to their owners. -
“Bleeding Kansas” was a violent and deadly period of guerrilla warfare in Kansas lasting until 1861. This was fought between pro slavery and anti slavery factions. -
The Kansas Nebraska act repealed the Missouri compromise, organized Kansas and Nebraska and established the “popular sovereignty” principle. -
Brooks violently beat Charles sumner with a cane on the senate floor. This whole argument started because brooks, personal relative was offended by sumners anti slavery speech. -
This ruling was a Supreme Court decision that denied citizenship to all enslaved or formerly enslaved Africans. -
The Lincoln- Douglas debates were seven political contests between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, competing for a u.s senate seat for Illinois. -
John browns raid was an attempt by abolitionists to seize a federal armory and incite a slave uprising. All of the raiders were captured pretty fast and it inevitably failed. -
In the 1860 election Abraham won 180 electoral votes and received a 39.7% of the popular vote. He won the election.