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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession territory out West
Proviso didn’t pass -
Compromise of 1850
Admission of CA as a free state
Slaves being sold in DC (Near our Capital representing Freedom!)
Utah & New Mexico being admitted as slave states
Fugitive Slave Laws during this time -
The Fugitive Slave Act
Law passed in 1850 to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Story calling for an end to slavery.
North decided: Slavery is horrible, cruel and unacceptable. South felt like it was: Yankee Abolitionist -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Law passed to try to solve the problem of slavery.
People in the territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery. -
Bleeding Kansas
small scale civil war in Kansas -
The Case of Dred Scott
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom after briefly living with his owner on free soil in the North.
African Americans were not citizens and could not sue. Slaves were property.
This judgment increased the tension between the Northern and Southern states. -
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass were running for Senator of Illinois in 1858, and they debated slavery.
Lincoln lost the election, but became nationally famous. -
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown and his followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
Plan=stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery.
It didn't work. -
Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in.
Those in the North voted for Lincoln, the South voted for Breckinridge. -
Fort Sumter
