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Missouri Compromise
Made missouri a slave state and manie a free state. also created the 36º30N line. -
Wilmot Proviso
Proposed that new mexico should be a free state. This made southerners mad because they wanted power. -
the compromise of 1850
Was five different laws including: that californa would be free; New Mexico could be a free or slave state; and no more slave trade though Washington D.C. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred scott, slave, sued his owner for his freedom. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A book about slavery that stunned people with a discription of slavery. -
Kansas/ Nabraska Act
Allowed the people in the Kansas/ Nebraska territory to vote on wether or not they were free states. -
Bleeding Kansas
A big war on wether or not Kansas was a free state -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Debates on how to adress slavery. -
John Brown's raid
John Brown raided Harpers Ferry (arsonal) -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln was elected. -
South Caroina Secedes
South Carolina secedes in distrust of the union.