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Wilmot Proviso
trying to band slavery in the mexican cession
DIDN'T HAPPEN It is the first time the u.s tried -
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
Made to hlp slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. this kept both sides satistfied. -
COMPROMISE OF 1850
admission of CA as a free state. slaves being sold in DC. Utah and New Mexico being admitted as slave states. fugitive slave laws during this time. keep the balance between slave and free state. -
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
story calling for an end to slavery caused tension between north and south -
KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
Popular sovereignty decide weather their state allowed slavery. people began flooding into kansas and nebraska -
BLEEDING KANSAS
small scale civil war in KANSAS -
DRED SCOTT
Slave who sued for his freedom
african americans were not considered citizens. increased the tension between the northern and southern states. -
LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES
Lincoln- slavery was wrong but legal.Should not be expanded. Lincoln lost the election but became nationlly famous. -
ELECTION of 1860
Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into the new teritories. Lincoln won the election. -
FORT SUMTER
south opened fire on the nortth. north surrendered. WAR HAD BEGUN! -
HARPER'S FERRY
John Brown seized the federal arsenal.
PLAN= stir up a slave revolution in Virginia and end slavery. (didn't work) he became a hero -
YAYY!
JHYREL FOUNTAINE FINSHED!! LOL :)
