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Missouri Compromise
-missouri entered USA as a slave state
-maine entered USA as a free state
-North of 36,30 no slavery allowed
-south of 36,30 open to slavery based on popular severengnity -
Period: to
Causes of Civil war
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Compromise of 1850
-California entered USA as a free state
-tough fugitive slave law
-end slave trade in Washington DC
UT and NM open to slavery based on popular soverengnity -
Fugitive Slave Act
-slave catchers go north to find run aways
-south loves
-north rescents/ ignore -
Republican Party Formed
-KEEP SLAVERY OUT OF THE TERRITORIES
-whigs, know nothing and free soilers no expansion of slavery -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
-debate issues of sslavery -lincoln gets national attention anti-expansion of slavery -
Uncle toms cabin
-fictional book about slavery
-Harriet Breecher shows seperation of familiest slave conditions
-popular in the north, banned in the south -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Missouri compromise overturned
-use popular sovereignty
-slave/free territories abolitionist/ slave owners clash -
''Bleeding Kansas"
-abolistionists and pro-slave rush to Kansas to vote fight for 2 yrs
-fight between slave and free interests
-result of Kansas-Nebraska act -
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
-not successful All captrued and hanged
-north was the hero
-south was the villian -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
-Brooks SC hit sumner with cane during debate in senate
-shows brutality side of slavery -
Firing on fort Sumter, SC
-1st shots fired of civil war
-CSA tried to capture USA fort to get guns that Lincoln allowed SC to take it -
Lincoln Calls up Volunteers to Fight
-CSA forms
-Lincoln troop number went up which led to 1st battle of Bull Run
-1st battle between two groups -
Secession of Southern States
-SC starts
-other states follow formed CSA
-Jefferson Davis becomes president
