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The Missouri Compromise
Tension was growing between pro-slavery and anti- slavery people so to keep the peace the congress decided to make a two-part compromise, made during march 3, 1830 also made by Henry Clay allowing Missouri's request. Also making Maine a free state. Also they drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana territory establishing a boundary between free and slave regions. This impacts history because it forestalled the tension between pro and anti slavery citizens and slaves. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot was a representative for Pennsylvania proposed a ban on slavery in all Mexican territories bill only passed the house but not the senate the southerners viewed it as an attack on slavery in the south from the north. He introduced the proviso on August 8, 1846. It cause tension to grow between southerners and northers once again. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a series of 5 bills passed by congress in 1850 which ends a four year political ¨war¨ between slave and free states on the status of the land taken during the Mexican American War. it affected history by making california a free state. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave act was passed on September 18, 1850 for southern slave holding interest so basically once a slave always a slave.this affected history because runaway slaves could get brought back into slavery so there was no way out.it also made it where if you ran away as a slave to the free states you couldn't trail to not be a slave because they weren't considered members of the society. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The opens up as a slave trader and Mr.Shelby discussing how many slaves he will have to sell to make up for dept. Because he has to he sells is best slave and his slave. In 1852 it was publicized. This book affected a lot because it showed northers what slavery was like.It was a big deal and if it didn't come out slavery might of gotten worse and faster. -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
In May 30,1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was made. It made it so people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they want slavery within their borders. The Act was to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which ended slavery north of latitude 36°30´. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. -
Dred Scott Case
On March 1857, the Supreme Court claimed their decision, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had been with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott said that being in a free state made him free. But the court made it illegal for slave to take U.S. citizenship, and because of this slaves were not allow to get a penations anymore for freedom. The Dred Scott case angered abolitionists and worsening North-South tensions. -
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Lincoln Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were many debates that were a total of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the United States Senate from Illinois the Republican candidate for the United States, and the wronged Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate ended up defeating Douglas by a lot in the president race after this it's said if all sides gather up he still would have won no matter what. The dates were all between Aug 21, 1858 – Oct 15, 1858. -
John Brown’s Raid
In 1859 Oct,16 - Oct,18 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an try at change, an abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.they ended up being executed up it helped start the civil war and make america free. -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
The election was on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four people contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin stayed successful. The Republican Party people said that they would not to interfere with slavery in the states, but despised the further extension of slavery into the territories. He ended up being the first president from the Republican Party which made history.Being the 16th president of united states of America -
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Southern Secession
In Apr 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 The secession of Southern States led to the making of the new country that was for slavery called Confederacy and eventually the Civil War. It was the most tense and serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65. Which many many soldiers losses on both sides roughly 620,000 more than a half a million soldiers.
