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Wilmot Proviso
congress tried to stop the spread of slavery. It failed, but south is concerned. -
Compromise of 1850
They managed to keep both sides satisfied and prevented a permanent split before the Civil War -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Story calling for an end to slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People would decide for themselves wether the state would allow slavery or not. People began to flood into the Kansas and Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
Small scalle Civil War. Northerners and Republican Party began to yell 'Bleeding Kansas' as a rally cry. -
Dred Scott Decision
African American were not citizens and could not sue. Increased tension between the northern and southern states. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
They debated about slavery and that slavery was wrong but legal. Stephen A. Douglas won the election. Lincoln became nationally famous. -
Harpers Ferry
Raid on harpers ferry.Stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery -
Election of 1860
Voters based their voting which section of the country the lived in. Southern states seceded and became the Confederate States of America. -
Fort Sumter
South opened fire on April 12 and the union had to surrender. Civil War began.
