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Wilmot Proviso
It was an unseccesfull proposal to the United States Congress to ban slavery in the territory aquired from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
5 seperate bills Passed by the United States that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican American war -
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a anti slavery novel about the human cost of slavery in the American South -
John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek
John brown led a group of Anti slavery men, and killed 5 men and boys. John brown was also a abolitionist -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a decision if slaves would ever be safe in the free states. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debate "A House Divided Against itself can not stand."
He said this to explain to people the we cant be half slavery and half free, we have to be one Nation. -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
It was a effort to arm slaves in a revolt in southern states by taking over a Armory -
Confederate States of America are formed
the states farthest south, where slavery and plantations agriculture were dominant, formed the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as President.
