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Missouri compromise
Missouri was admitted as a slave state to maintain a balance between senates -
Compromise of 1850
California was permitted to join the union as a state without slavery -
Fugitive slave act
mandated that all citizens apprehend African Americans fleeing from slavery -
Uncle Tom's cabin published
contributed to the increasing opposition to slavery in the northern states -
Kansas Nebraska act
senator Stephen Douglas proposed legislation for the federal government to oversee the territory in the northwest -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott, was a slave who lived in Missouri and was fired to move to Wisconsin a free state and Illinois but he did not get his freedom so when his owner died he became a freeman -
John browns raid on harpers ferry
John brown, an ardent abolitionist, spearheaded and anti-slavery crusade by leading a raid on the arsenal warehouse in Harper Ferry, Virgina -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election was attributed to the fact that the northern population, which was larger than that of the south as Hannibal's lead, favored him. Lincoln's lead in the election paved the way for the impending new civil war -
South Carolina secedes
on December 20, 1860, south Carolina became the first state to secede and by the end of February 1861, alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, mississippi and Texas followed to also seceded