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Wilmot Proviso
The bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories gained from Mexican Cession -
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The Nation Breaking Apart
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Compromise of 1850
A compromise in which lowered tensions between north and south but instead of peace it caused a conflict -
Kansas -Nebraska Act
Laws established that estabilished the territories of kansas and nebraska and gave the residents of kansas and nebraska the right to decide whether they want slavery -
Bleeding Kansas
The conflict in kansas which was caused by illegal voting started many of fights between proslaveery and antislavery. -
Canning of Sumner
When viloence was spreading in Kansas a senator named Charles Sumner wrote a speech about making fun of a proslavery activist named A.P. butler but Prestin Brooks beat up Sumner with his own cane. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
An 1856 court case which a slave named Dred Scott sued congress but instead he was taken in as unfree African-American -
Attacks on Harpers Ferry
A Northerner named John Brown fought against proslavery activists at a fort in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
A famous election in which Abraham Lincoln won the most electoral votes in the north -
Secession
A point in time in which South Carolina and six other states secede From U.S.A.