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Congress debated the Wilmot Proviso
This was a bill that would ban slavery in the new territories acquired from Mexico. Congress thought states would give the South to much power. Northeners were for it but the Southerns did not agree. southerns faught saying that they had the right for slaves in new territories beacuse slaves were property and the Constitution protects property. The wilmot Proviso was never passed. -
California wants to be free state
California asked to enter the union as a free state. Southners believed thought it should be a slave state considering most of it lays south of the Missouri Compromise line. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Hariet Stowe published Uncle Toms Cabin. Which is a book that showed how bad slavery was in the South to the North. It made the south look bad -
Kansas-Nebraska act
It was an act in which Kansas wanted to join the country. AMerica said no. This was the lead cause to bleeding Kansas. But after a compromise they agreed to it. -
Start to Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a group of slaves who decided to rise above. They slaves led violent slave attacks. This caused many deaths -
Dred Soctt vs Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being. -
John Brown rebellion
John Brown took a group of slaves to and arsenal in Harpers Ferry in hope to take over. When they got there they failed. The people thinking of a way to punish Brown. -
John Brown
John Brownis hanged for treason, This makes many people in the North angry. They get energized and start to join in. -
Lincoln elected
Lincoln was elected in 1860. This showed that the north had more power. The union finally had a leader for war.
