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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five laws passed to defuse tensions between the North and South over slavery but it ultimately failed to resolve the issue and increased sectional animosity.
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this was a part of the The Compromise of 1850. this law stated that all escaped slaves capched in a slave state had to be returned to there owner
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this is a book that showed the life of a slave
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this was a speech saying that how can we be free with slavery
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowing their residents to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty.
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Bleeding Kansas was significant because it was a violent undeclared war in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces that served as a critical precursor to the Civil War.
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The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision was a landmark 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court -
Brown and his 21 followers captured the armory and took hostages, but local militias and then U.S. Marines led by Colonel Robert E. Lee surrounded and defeated them. -
Abraham Lincoln was first elected president on November 6, 1860, and was the 16th U.S. President. His victory, achieved by winning the Electoral College with 180 votes despite a divided popular vote, prompted several Southern states to secede, leading to the American Civil War. -
South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, driven primarily by a fear that the federal government and northern states posed a threat to slavery. -
By February 1861, seven Southern states had seceded. On February 4 of that year, representatives from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama, with representatives from Texas arriving later, to form the Confederate States of America. -
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, an event that marked the beginning of the American Civil War.