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Period: to
Antebellum
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Nat Turner Rebellion
A free slave Nat Turner killed 60 white people -
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Wilmot Proviso
Outlawed slavery in new territories aquired by the US -
missuri compromise
Broke the free states from the slave states -
The mexican war ending
The government didnt know what to make all the new territories aquired. -
Compromise of 1850
prevented exspansion of free territories and strengthened the Fugitive slave act. -
underground railroad
series of safehouses that led to canada for escaped slaves. -
release of UNcle Toms Cabin
Stowe released the novel that changed americas view on slavery. -
political party splits
the whig party plits into 2 parts one that favors the Fugitive Slave act and one tha does not -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas became a hot-bed for pro/anti violence -
Dredd scott decision
free slave who sued his owner for keeping him as a slave -
Abraham lincln was elected to office
an anti slavery president was elected
