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wilmot proviso
wanted to ban slavery in the mexican cession territory out west excluding texas, trying to stop spreading slavery. -
Fugitive slave law
This was the law that prohibed to help a run away slave in the north.This helped slave holders to recaptured slaves -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Story named uncle tom's cabin. It divide the north and the south .
north saw it terrible and the south said it was all lies. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
law passed to try to solve th eproblem of slavery in thr western territories.People is going to choose if is a free state or a slave state. -
compromise of 1850
Utah and new mexico being admitted as slave states . keep the balance between slave states and free states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Allowing popular sovereighty the right to vote in kansas and nebraska if they wanted to be slave or free. causing people rushing to get the vote to go their way. -
Dred Scott
African Ametican slave that sued for his freedom. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Were running for senator debating slavery . Slavery was wrong but legal. Lincoln lost the election but became nationally famous. -
Harper's Ferry
Abolitionist John Brown and his followers seized the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Killed 4 people in the action. Plan=stir up a slave revolt in Virginia and end slavery. It didn’t work, the slaves did not revolt. -
Election of 1860
The election for predency of abraham lincoln . He promised to keep slavery from spreading into new territories . -
Fort Sumter
Brief history of the site where the first engagement of the Civil War.The south attack on fort sumter stared the civil war officially. North surrenders .
