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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in the new states.
Scaring the southern slave owners. -
Compromise of 1850
Keep the balance between slave and free states.
Admission of CA as a free state -
Fugitive Slave Law
To help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Story calling for an end to slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People in the territories could decide for themselves. -
Bleeding Kansas
A bunch of people got shot or killed with guns and swords. (Abolionist and Pro-slavery) A small cicil war in kansas. -
Dred Scott
Slave sued for his freedom
Increased the tension between the northern and southern states. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Debated slavery.
Slavery was wrong but legal.
Slavery should not be expanded -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown seized the federal arschal.
He became a martyr (hero) in the cause of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln elected.
If lincoln won, southern states would secede
-Disageement over states' rights issues
-Breakdown of compromises
-Increasing sectionalism -
Fort Sumter
North has a fort in the southern territory.
War has began.
