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Debate over Slavery
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Missouri Compromise
An agreement proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal -
Free-Soil Party
A party made to keep slavery out of the western territories. -
Compromise of 1850
A compromise signed to allow California to enter the Union as a free state, divide the rest of the Mexican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, ended the slave trade in Washington, included a strics fugitive slave law, and settled a border dispute between Texas and Mexico. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
An Antslavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, writing about how slavery was evil and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Established the territories Nebraska and Kansas, giving settlers the right to decide on slavery. -
Formation of the Republican Party
A political party established to end slavery out of the western territories. -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery men raided the town of Lawrence, who was a antislavery stronghold. The proslavery men smashed a press of a Free-Soil newspaper and destroyed many homes. -
Dred- Scott Case
A case where and enslaved man's owner died, and he and his lawyers fought for him to become a free man because he lived in a free state. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led a group of abolitionists to Harpers Ferry in Virginina, and planned to raid a federal arsenal. He tried to lead a slave uprising, but failed, and the troops killed his followers and he was sentanced to death, guilty of murder and treason. -
Election of 1860
The election where Abraham Lincoln was elected, right before the Civil War between the North and South. Lincoln ended the War and brought both parties together again.