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Missouri Compromise
Congresses effortt to enter Missouri into the Union as a slave states and not upset the slave free state balance.
Multipe Compromise shut down
Maine entered union as a free state Missouri as a slave
NO more slavery North of the 36 30 line -
Compromise of 1850
Discussed if slavery should be allowed in the territory
Ended slave trade in D.C.
Allowed for one more state to enter a free and slave -
Fugative Slave Act
Federal law that required the capture and return of runaway slave
Slaves put back into slavery even if they were free
Many people in the North did not support the law -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Explained horrors of slavery
Let the North see how slaves were treated
Story of slaves that was whipped to death
Started much controversy in the South -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed people to decide if they wanted slavery in the territories
Rejected 36 30 line
Plan for transcontenetal railroad
Many flocked to new territory to cast vote -
Dred Scott Decision
Slave whos Master took him into a northeren territory
Claimed who was a free slave and brought his case to the US Supreme Court
Supreme Court ruled against him and claimed he was no man and was property and that he can not be taken away -
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Fought over slavery issue
Both massive party and campaign
Was a run for a senate seat
Lincoln ran for republicans
Lincoln Loses -
Incident at Harper's Ferry
John Brown planned to rob arsenal
Wanted to start slave rebellion
At first he got into the arsenal and was succesful
Poor planned and were overrun -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was nominated by the republican party
Many people turned out not to like him
He said that he did not want to mess with slavery
Lincoln said he wanted to keep union together -
Southern States form Confederacy
Meet after the 6 states seceded
Purpose was to form a new goverment
Most states were gone when Lincoln was fully president
Civil War started with bombarding of Fort Sumter
