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Wilmot Proviso
It was trying to ban slavery in the land they got from Mexico, except Texas. Congress would not past it. This led to their being a Free Soil Party. It was a party devoted to stopping slavery. -
Compromise Of 1850
The compromise listed California would be a free states, the slave trade was abolished, the government would let territories is they wanted to be slave or free , and the Fugitive Slave Act. It did not work in the end & angered the Northerners. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harreit Beecher Stowe was the author. It showed the bad things about slavery. The Northerners thought slavery was horrible & the South saw it as a Yankee Abolitionist Propaganda. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
They were debating on if Kansas & Nebraska should be a slave or free. The government said the people could decide. So people came flooding to make them slave or free. The states became overpopulated. -
Bleeding Kansas
People were fighting in Kansas & it became where most of the Civil War. It was a rally cry for anti-slavery. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a man that sued for his freedom. The court ruled that since African Americans were not citizens he is not allowed to sue. Alot of the Northerners became Republicans. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln & Douglas were both running for Senator of Illinois. Lincoln had lost the election but became nationally famous. -
Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown seized the federal arsenal & killed four people. He wnted to start up a slave revolt in Virginia. It was unsuccessful, him & ten other men got executed. -
Fort Sumter
South surrounded the North at Fort Sumter & attacked. North had to surrender. This was the begging of the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was running & he wanted to get rid of slavery. The South didn't want him to win. So once he did the South seceded from the Union & called themselfs the Confederate States of America.
