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The Compromise of 1850
Allowed california to become a free state. The impression of "Popular sovereignty" was applied to the territories of Utah and New Mexico. The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. Also the Fugative Slave law was strengthened. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. This novel revealed the true reality of slavery. This features Uncle Tom, A slave who shared his suffering story. -
The Gadsden Purchase
This purchase expanded the united states and this was the construction of the transcontinental railroad. -
Republican Party Founded
A new party formed to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. -
The know Nothing Party
Adopted the american party as its offical name. In 1854, Know-Nothing candidates even won control of the Massachusetts legislature. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This created territories of kansasa and nebraska, and opened new lands for settlement. This act had an effect of repealing the missouri compromise of 1820 by allowing white settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty to allow slavery within each territory. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
Known as the border war, a series of violent political confrontations in the U.S. involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-Slavery "Border Ruffian" elements. This took place in the kansas territory and the neighoring towns of Missouri. -
John brown
John Brown kills five proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek. -
Dred Scott decision
Issued with majority opiniion given by chief justice Roger Taney that slaves were not U.S. Citizens and coud not sue in Federal Court -
U.S. Senate Race Debates
Debates bewteen Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas at seven sites in Illinois. -
Harpers Ferry
Also known as "John Brown's raid".This was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
