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Compromise of 1850
compromise The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South -
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law a gun battle broke out between abolitionists and slave catchers, and in Wisconsin, abolitionists freed a fugitive named Joshua Glover from a local jail. In Boston, federal marshals and 22 companies of state troops were needed to prevent a crowd from storming a court house to free a fugitive nmed Anthony Burns. -
Uncle tom's cabin
brought the issue of slavery to life for those few who remained unmoved after decades of legislative conflict and widened the division between North and South. -
underground railroad
URRHarriet Tubman began her work with helping slaves move to freedom using Underground -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
ActPro- and anti-slavery agitators flocked to Kansas, hoping to shift the decision by sheer weight of numbers. The two factions struggled for five years with sporadic outbreaks of bloodshed that claimed fifty-six lives. Although both territories eventually ratified anti-slavery constitutions, the violence shocked and troubled the nation. -
Arise of Republican party vs. Democratic party
Candidates from the republic and democrats were arising and the republicans wanted slavery to end and the democrates wanted slavery to stay. -
Charles Sumner is Attacked by Preston on the Floor of the Senate
Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being. -
Lecompton Constitution Rejected
LecomptonKansas voters rejected the Constitution and Kansas became a free state -
john brown
john brown hoped to seize weapons and distribute them to Southern slaves in order to spark a wracking series of slave uprisings. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Election
lincoln As a Republican, his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many Southerners. On December 20, 1860, a little over a month after the polls closed, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Six more states followed by the spring of 1861.
