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It was basically an agreement between the south and the north, to let Missouri be the 24th state. -
It was a failed proposal from David Wilmot to ban slavery from the territories that got from mexico -
the 12th president of the united states, and a national hero from the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812. -
It was actually a set of five bills passed by congress. -
The fugitive slave act was a law passed that made it legal to basically kidnap an escaped slave and bring them back. -
America's 13th president, known for the Comprimise of 1850. -
A two-volume novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that goes against slavery, and was the second best selling book in the 19th century, right after the bible. -
As the fourteenth president of the U.S. he tried to ease the divisions but it didn't do much. -
The violent out bursts between anti-slavery and pro-slavery people in result of the new territory of Kansas. -
This party was created to combat the Kansas-Nebraska act, also known as bleeding Kansas. -
Senator Charles Sumner basically just got beaten to unconsciousness, and near-death, by Preston Brooks -
Also regarded as Dred Scott v. Sandford, this was when the court decided that Americans of African descent shouldn't be granted citizenship, so yea. -
The fifteenth president, and one the worst in some people's opinions, probably because he never addressed the issue of slavery -
These were actually seven debates between Stephen Douglas, from the democratic party, and Abraham Lincoln from the republic party. -
This was a slave revolt led by John Brown, that did not succeed. -
This event is litterally just Abraham Lincol's election. -
Basically the south withdrawing from the U.S.