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Missouri Compromise
-the Northern and Southern politicians have debates over whether slavery should be permitted.
-Henry Clay (a.k.a. the great compromiser) settles the grwoing debate by allowing maine to be permitted into the US as a free state, and Arkansas as a slave state.
-The Missouri Compromise was a series of Laws that helped mantain the balance of slave and free states. -
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The Civil War Timeline
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The Nullification Crisis
-Southern States, like South Carolina, felt as if tariffs were unfair and only useful to the North.
-Vice President John C Callhoun stated that any state could nullify a federal law it considers unconstitutional
-When the government denied the argument made by South Carolina, the state threatened to secede.
-Henry Clay then promptly came up with a compromise and lowered the tariff. -
The compromise of 1850
-congress had many heated debates of whether or not the new states recieved from Mexico would be slave states.
-Henry Clay then made a compromise between the North and the South
-California would be admitted as a free state and slavery would be aboloished in Washington DC
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- The fugitive slave act was passed by congress as a way to capture african americans who fled to the North to escape slavery. -These laws raised tension in the United States and it set the stages for John Brown's raid and the American Civil War.
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Bleeding Kansas
-5000 people from nearby slave state Missouri came and voted for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
-Kansas then had a proslavery legislature
-Anti-slavery opponents started their own government
-The antislavery government was attacked by proslavery forces.
-To avenge this, EXTREME abolitionist John Brown murdered his proslavery neighbors. -
Dred Scott Decision
- Dred scott was a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving to Missouri, which was a slave state. -The supreme Court declared the following:
- All blacks could never be citizens of the United States -The missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional -Slavery was permitted in all of the Country's territories.
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Attack on Harpers Ferry
-John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom.
-He planned to capture the arsenal in Virginia to arm the slaves.
-Brown and his men were captured and ten were killed.
-Abolitionists everywhere saluted Brown as he was put to death
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The Election of 1860
-Abraham Lincoln wins the election
-Southern states begin to secede from the Union shortly after Lincoln is elected.
