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-Texas was paid off 10 million to back its claims
-Washington D.C. was required to end its slave trade, but slavery still kept going because it was legal
-California became a free state
-A law was made that forced people to catch runaway slave known as the "Stricter Fugitive slave act" -
-All slaves must be returned to their masters
-No one can assist a slave otherwise they will be put in prison for 6 months -
-Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book sold 300,000 books in the first year and more than 2 million copies within five years
-The 2nd highest selling book of the 19th century was about a slave owner that treated his slave bad and it changed a lot of people's views on slavery -
-This act allowed a state to decide weather to be a slave state or not
-Kansas becoming a slave would ruin the missouri compromise -
-The supreme court declared that Dred Scott could not sue because he was property
-The ruling declared that the missouri compromise was illegal because it was unconstitutional not allowing slavery in the Northern states -
-John Brown leads a group of men in to take weapons from the Harpers Ferry
-Their goal was to get the weapons and lead a slave revolt
- The raid fails and John is hung for treason
-The south sees what the north will do to end slavery -
-Abraham Lincoln was the only person against slavery.
-He won, but the election showed how divided the country was considering no one voted for him
-Lincoln being elected pushed the nation to the brink of war. -
-Fort Sumter was a federal fort in South Carolina
-The South shot at Fort Sumter as the Union was trying to resupply it
-The fort surrendered because of the attack