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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was an effort to balance power. Between slave states and free states. Missiour became a slave state be this law prohibited was slavey in the rest of the Territory. -
United States gets more land from Mexican War
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Free- Soil Party
Political Party that did not like the extension of slavery in the territories. -
the compromise
The Compromise of 1850 had five different parts. First make Califorina a free state in the Union. 2nd New Mexico be federal territory. Third Address a border betweenTexas and New Mexico. 4th for an end to the slave trade. 5th more of an effective fugitive slave law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle tom's Cabin was a antislavery book that was writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book made the south every mad. One person stated that the book created two million abolitionists. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraksa Act was a plan that divided the remainder of the Louisiana purchase into two parts Kansas and Nebraska. -
Republican Party
The Republican Party main issue was their opposition of the spread of slavery in the west.This part was made up of some Whigs Democrats, free- soilers and abolitionists. -
James Buchanan is Elected
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Dred Scott Decision
This is the first issue of citizenship for a slave. Founder thought that all African Americans had no rights. Which then made them eather Slave or Free. But they still were not citizens under the U.S Constitution. -
"Bleeding Kansas
Kansas had two different governments and a populatation that was divided into two camps. both side were heavily armed and then violence came. Which is why we get " Bleeding Kansas because with the violence that was braking out at this time their was just about always people killed. -
The raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown who was an Abolitionist thought that it was his duty to have an attack. Brown dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery. He moved to Kansas with some of his sons. Brown Said it was time to fight fire with fire. -
1860 Election
The election of 1860 caused many problumes. If a Republican were to win that would cause many more to leave the Union. Democrats were the first to try nominate a presidental candidate. when they could not descide on a canidiate they spilt in two. The election results mande amny southerners mad. Lincoln did not campaign to any southern state. This was a strong reminder of how the south was losing political power. -
Constitutional Union Party
Many Northenerners and Southerners most of them former Whigs formend a new political party. The constitutional Union Party. They were every simple. No political principles other than the constitution of the counrty the Union of the states and the enforcements of the Laws. -
Leaving the Union
Many Souther people believed that Lincoln would end slavery in the south. They also feard that destory the region. JUst four days into Lincons election south Carolina withdrew fro, the Union. -
The Confederate State of America
Febuary 1, 1861 Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and texas left the Union. Not very one that lived in these state believed in the secession. Febuary 4, delegates from the states that left the Union met in Montgomery Alabama. On that day a new nation was created. The Confederate States of America -
Pottawatomie Massacre
On May 24, 1865 Brown Led a company of seven who where along Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas. During that Night they took five pro slavery men from their homes and killed them in the pottawatomie Massacre.
