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Wilmot Proviso
Amendment was proposed by David Wilmot "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico". So wilmot had banned slavery and the land which was gained by mexico
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Gold Rush
Thousand of people came to california and search of gold, 1 out of 5 died so cali was consider a dangerous territory because so many people have died just to get a chance at wealth.
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Election of 1848
The election of 1848 taylor daring image used in the campaign and abstention helps whigs and office. Zaggar Taylor first president.
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Compromise of 1850
4 laws had passed during this time period:
1. California enters as a free state. 2. States was now making stronger laws after certain events like John Brown Raid. 3. Slave trade was banned and D.C and 4. Popular Sovereignty
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Fugitive Slave Law
This law was horrible to blacks because if you were a black and you were accused of being a runaway and you were a freeman you will be arrested and sent back to a plantation without a trail so the north wasn't safe they had to go to canada
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Underground Railroad
A secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and Canada in the years before the American Civil War. Harriet T. south 19 times to help free slaves
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Personal Liberty Laws
Federal laws of 1793 and 1850 allowed for the arrest and removal of alleged fugitive slaves with only minimal evidence presented by the master or master's agent claiming a person as a fugitive
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Uncle Toms Cabin
Web definitionsUncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel, "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War",
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Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
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Brooks-Sumner Affair
Charles Sumne gets beat with by a can by Preston Brooks on view of slavery and Violence of attack hinted at Civil War to come
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Dread Scott Case
Dred Scott decision, was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the constitution and slavery is legal
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Lincoln Douglass Debates
A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858, when both were campaigning for election to the United States Senate from Illinois. Much of the debating concerned slavery and its extension into territories such as Kansas. The debates transformed Lincoln into a national figure and led to his election to the presidency in 1860
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John Brown Raid
Brown led twenty-one volunteers in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), intending to seize weapons and incite a nationwide slave revolt. Brown was taken by a storming party of U.S. Marines commanded by Col. Robert E. Lee. In his trial, Brown claimed he was an instrument of God to free the slaves, and said, before he was hanged, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”
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Election Of 1860
The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. Abraham become first (Republican) president
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South Carolina Secedes
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Confederacy Formed
-A single-term executive with a 6-year term -A presidential item veto- A role for cabinet officials in congressional debates -A prohibition of protective tariffs and federal funding for internal improvements. *politcal *Political
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Fort Sumter
Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. Lincoln sends supplies, food after.
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