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Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso was a bill to outlaw slavery in new territories taken from Mexico. This caused a conflict in congress between Northeners and Southeners. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 were laws meant to settle the problem of slavery. The North liked that the slave trade was abolished and California was admitted as a free state, the South like that the Compromise of 1850 made a strong fugitive slave law and that two territories could vote on whether or not to have slavery. This also caused conflict because it failed to resolve the slavery issue. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to spread the word of abolition. Her goal was to end slavery -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was a law to organize Kansas ans Nebraska territories. It overturned the Missori Comprimise and caused violence in Kansas. The political result was popular sovereignty. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was a small scale civil war. Bleeding Kansas became the rallying cry for the anti-slavery Northeners and the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a Missouri slave that was sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruling was that slave were not citizens, the Southeners were overjoyed, but the Northeners were upset and began joining the Republican Party. -
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Lincoln and Douglass were both running for Senator in Illinois. Lincoln said that slavery was wrong but protected by the constitution. Although Lincoln lost, he became nationally famous. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown and others siezed a federal arsenal. Their goal was to stir up a slave revolution and end slavery, they failed. John Brown was captured and excuted. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln was elected with support only in free states, this caused states in the deep south to deciede to secede. The south said they had volentarily joined the Union. -
Fort Sumter
The South opened fire on under-supplied Union forces and the Union had to surrender.This was the first battle of the Civil war
