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The Missouri compromise, proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 was made to stop the slave expansion and in the process making missouri a free state. President James Monroe signed it on March 6th 1820. Maine was a free state and Missouri was a slave state. What made the Missouri Compromise so impactful was that in an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.
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The underground railroad was a large network of people that consisted of both African Americans, and Whites that offered to shelter and aid the escapees that were from the South. 1831 is the earliest point in time that the underground railroad is mentioned. One very important people in the Underground Railroad were Harriet Tubman, who was a slave that escaped via the underground railroad, and eventually helped in the underground railroad herself.
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Nat Turner was born on October 2nd, 1800. Nat Turner lead a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. Repercussions for his actions set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people, and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people was caused. The rebellion also made a lot of people pro-slavery.
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The compromise of 1850 was a compromise made of five Bills that tried to resolve a dispute over slavery. This took place during the Mexican American war. The compromise was about California becoming a free state and leaving Utah and New Mexico to decide whether they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. The compromise was formed Henry Clay, and Stephen Douglas. The compromise of 1850 was a major impact on history for not only the states that changed but for the whole united states.
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Congress passed Fugitive Slave Act on September 18, 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. This act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. Since slavery was so popular back then this was very important. This made escaping as a slave way harder.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a book written by Harriet Stowe on June 5, 1851. This book was written to show the true horrors of slavery to people who thought it was harmless. Harriet was an abolitionist and she tried to eliminate slavery by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin to show the daily life of a slave. This was very important because it gave people the first look of slavery through a slaves eyes. That was important in the stopping of slavery because if people just thought of it as normal work.
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Bleeding Kansa, also known as the Nebraska Act was a series of violent Fights in Kansas Territory. This all started because of political disagreements over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. About 56 people were killed during the violence. It has been called a Tragic Prelude, an overture, to the American Civil War which immediately followed it.
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The Dred Scott Case was a case. Dred Scott was a black man who wanted slavery abolished, So he went to court and asked if he could do a trial on this, and the court agreed. This lasted until march 6th, 1857. It ended not in his favor and the court came a to conclusion that no matter if you were in the united states or in a territory, it will not count you as enslaved and freedom. The case led to a change in the United States cases for the upcoming future about slavery.
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John brown's raid started during 1859 when John Brown decided to lead a small group to raid a federal armory in Harpers Harvey. The raid took place because John was tired of of the slavery going on and he wanted to stop it, so he decided to do a raid to free some slaves. This did not go to his plan and the raid failed, It failed because he was expecting many of slaves helping with the raid but they didn't show up. This did made a huge impact on the upcoming election that occurred after the raid.
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The emancipation Proclamation was made in September 22, 1862, and was Issued by Abraham Lincoln. The emancipation proclamation set two million slaves free. Slave owners were not very happy about this. The government had to make this proclamation because it was a “fit and necessary war measure” in order to cripple the Confederacy's use of slaves in the war effort. The emancipation Proclamation impacted history by changing the future of slavery rights.
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