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willmot proviso
trying to stop slavery in new territory scaring southern slave owners -
compromise of 1850
Admission of california as a free state Help north and south not go to war for another 10 years -
fugitive slave law
Helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves prevented a permanent split before the civil war -
Uncle toms cabin
story calling for an end for slavery north=slavery is horrible
south=abolishionist propaganda -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People in territory could decide for themselves weather their state would allow slavery -
bleeding kansas
proslavery and abolishionist fought eachother with guns small civil war erupted in kansas -
dred scott
slave sued for his freedom increased tension between the north and south states -
Lincoln -douglas Debates
lincoln and Douglas debated slavery lincoln lost election but became nationally famous -
Harpers Ferry
Jhon brown seized the federal arsenal Brown became a hero in the cause of slavery -
election of 1860
lincoln became president promised to keep slavery from spreding into new territories -
fort sumter
THE CIVIL WAR BEGINS
