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Wilmot Proviso
This bill aimed to outlaw slavery in territories taken from Mexico. The bill passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate thus causing a division in Congress Although, not a success it led to the formation of the Free Soil Party. -
Compromise of 1850
To please the North, California would be admitted as a free state and slave trade would be abolished is D.C. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas drafts bill for governing the Nubraska territory into two territories Nebaska and Kansas -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and antislavery settlers rush into Kansas territory to vote for territoral legislation. Missourians vote in election illegally Antislavery boycott. -
Caning of Summer
Senator Charles Summer's speech attacks proslavery forces in Kansas and makes fun of A.P.Butler. one of Butler's relative'[s were there and attacks him. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Supreme Court rule against Scott stating:
-Scott is not a U.s. citizen, cannot sue the U.S. courts.
-is bound by Missouri's slave code because he lived in Missouri
Result of case:
Allow slavery to spread anywhere in U.S. territory denied citizenship of free African Americans