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Missouri Compromise
Slave states gain Missouri and free states gain Maine chosen by 36-30 line after if free or not -
Compromise of 1850
California became a free state divided the Mexican cession end slave trade for washington dc end texas border dispute -
Fugitive slave act
Allowed to capture runaway slave and send them back. North disapprove of the act -
Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
A book written in New England about slave system and south thinks is untrue version of slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created a bill to make government for land between oklahoma-canada that is divided in two for equality -
Dread Scott case
Slave sue for freedom because lived in north but court say cant sue because not white -
John browns raid on Harpers Ferry
Anti slave campaign plan to raid warehouse for weapons to free slaves -
Election of 1860
Different opinions on slave cause separation with different canadants south was angry that abe won because think hate slavery -
South Carolina secedes
South Caroline first state to secede after Lincoln elected other followed