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Wilmot Proviso
Wanted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession territory out West, excluding Texas. Texas already had slavery so they weren't going to mess with texas. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Law passed in 1850 to help Slave holders recapture runaway Slaves. South opened fire on April 12, 1861 and the union, -
Compromise of 1850
From 1846 - 1850 1.Admission of CA as a free state. 2.Slaves being sold in DC -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe - story calling for an end to slavery North decided : Slavery is horrible, cruel and unacceptable. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
People in the territories could decide for themselves. Whether their state would allow slavery. People began flooding in Kansas Nebraska. -
Bleeding Kansas
Small scale civil war in Kansas. -
Dred Scott
Slave sued for his freedom African Americans not sue, Slaves were property, increased tension between the Norhtern and Southern states, -
Lincoln -Douglas Debates
Lincoln and Douglass debated slavery Lincoln's Slavery was wrong but illegal. -
Harper's Ferry
John Brown, Seized the fed arsenal. Plan = stir u a slave revolt in Virigina and end slavery. Brown became a hero in the cause of slavery, -
Election of 1860
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in, Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into the new territories, -
Fort Sumter
Lincoln noticed Davis he was sending supplies to the fort, South opened fire on April 12, 1861 and the union,
