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Missouri Compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state while adding Maine as a free state. It also prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line. -
Compromise of 1850
Five seperate bills that defused the confrontation between slave and free states. The five bills dictated that Texas surrender it claims to New Mexico, California as a free state approved, the prevention of the Wilmot Proviso, and banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Acts allow for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. It also punished those who help them escape. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The law dictated that all escape slave upon capture be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Publication
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." said Abraham Lincoln to Harriet Beecher Stowe. An anti-slavery writing by Harriet Beecher Stowe which caused a major uproar in which persuaded both the Northerners and the British of the horrors of slavery.
*Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more in Great Britain than in the US. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opening lands for settlement, because of that the Missouri Compromise was repealed. It also allowed white males to decide whether to be a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. -
Birth of the Republican Party
Former members of the Whig Party who opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories. -
Dred Scott V. Sandford
The Supreme Court dictated that all people of African Ancestry could never become U.S. Citizens. They also could not prohibit slavery in its territories. -
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
With 21 men John Brown attacked Harpers Ferry. His hope was that the slaves would help with the revolt unfortunately none did. Brown was soon taken to Charlestown, Virginia where he was tried and executed. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president this caused major uproar because of the fact Abraham Lincoln was anti-slavery. This caused seven southern states to secede from the Union before Lincoln's inauguration and soon the Civil War. -
Fort Sumter, SC
The first shot fired at the Civil War. After the sucession of South Carolina, Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort. Soon after the Confederates attacked the fort, the Union surrender next day. The Confederacy occupied the fort for four years, until the capture of Charleston in February 1865.
