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Fugitive Slave Law
no exact date. but it angered many northerners because it stated that Blacks living in northern states but claimed by slave catchers had no rights -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was considered a laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery for each to be determined by popular sovereignty -
Missouri Compromise of 1850
There was no exact date.California was admitted as a free state and Slave trade would be abolished in nation's capital, although you could still have slaves in the nation's capital -
Harriet Beecher Stowe - "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. The Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. There was no exact day of the Bleeding Kansas -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas - Nebraska Act passes Congress and over through the Missouri Compromise opening the Northern territory to slavery. -
John Brown Kills 5 Proslavery settlers
Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. He killed the five proslavery near the Pottawatomie Creek. Brown was captured during the raid and was later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon -
John Brown Trail
John Brown led 21 armed men, five blacks and 16 whites, on a raid of the railroad town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His goal was to seize the Federal arsenal there and then lead a slave insurrection across the South -
Dred SCott v. Sandford
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slavery is protected by the Constitution, and that a ban on slavery in the territories is unconstitutional -
Stephen Douglas
(couldnt fine exact date) he was a senator who actually got the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into its parts and getting majorities to vote for it that way
