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Wilmot Proviso
It was a proposal that was unsuccessful to ban slavery in the new territory that we got from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
It was five different bills that were passed by congress that stopped a political confrontation over slavery. -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
It was a book that talked about how slavery was in the south for people that didn’t know how it was. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It was when the country turned Nebraska over to the people and over to popular sovereignty. -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek
May 24, 1856
John Brown and five of his friends came down to the south and snuck into people’s houses and killed five people. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate "A House Divided Against itself can not stand."
He was talking about we either need to go all slavery or all non-slavery because if we are split then we cannot stay as one country. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a man that was a slave that basically lived free with his master in the north but she moved back down south and died then he went to trial to be free. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Oct 16, 1859 – Oct 18, 1859
It was where John Brown and his group of men went down and attacked a ferry to get the slaves to revolt and attack. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President
Abraham Lincoln was a politician for a while that gave key speeches and then a while later he became president. -
The Confederate States of America are formed
The states that were the farthest south that owned slaves and plantations started their own thing called the confederate states. -
Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Confederate guns came around the border of fort Sumter and they opened fire on the Fort Sumter. -
South Carolina Secedes from the Union
South Carolina wanted to keep slaves so they were forced to leave the union then we started a war.