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nebraska kansas act
the dispute over the expansion of slavery. northern politioions did not want southern slave owners to become more powerful in the senate as new states were admitted to the union. just as southern politicions did not want the north did not want the south to have more power. these politicions had no desire to halt the spread of slavery on a moral issue, it was pure politics -
dred scott decision
it had appealed to the supreme court in hopes of being granted freedom.the supreme court said that slaves would never have the right to be free and walk the streets of the united states of america. -
lincon vs douglas
It was a series of seven debates beetween freedom of blacks but douglas ignored the basic humanity of blacks and that slaves did have an equal right to liberty it was the day that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met in Ottawa Illinois in the first of the famous Lincoln Douglas Debates -
lincoln wins presidency
it was the running of who would become president of the united states. He ran against stephen a douglas. -
the south seced
the people of the state south carolina in convention assembled on the 26th day of april a,d,, 1852 declared that the frequent violations of the constitution of the united states by the federal goverment, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states fully justified this state in then withdrawling from the federal union but in diference to the opinions and wishes of the other slave holding states she forbore at that time to exercise the right -
confederate states of america formed
it was a government set up from 1861 to1865 by eleven southern slave states that had declared their sesion from the united states. sessionists argued that the united states constitution was a compact among states an agreement whitch each state could abandon without consulation
