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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise started on March, 6, 1820. When they made a compromise that the North would get any free state above the 36,30 line, and let Maine become a free state. While the South got any state below the 36,30 line and Missouri to become a slave state. -
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Events Leading to the Civil War Project
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Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner Rebellion, started on August, 6, 1831, Nat Turner would go around killing any Slave owner and their family they could, they tried to get other slave to rebel against their slave owner, but as a result of the rebellion the slave owner made harsher punishments for their slaves. -
Compromise of 1850
On January 29, 1850, Senator Henry Clay introduced a plan which made California a free state, and banned the slave trade in Washington D.C. , It also caused any Mexican Cession to vote whether or not they wanted to allow slavery or not, also Texas gave parts of New Mexico back to the Mexican cession for 10 million to pay all of their dept, and made the Fugitive Slave Act, which meant that any runaway slave could be recaptured, held without trial, and no Jury. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book about how slaves were treated, and the horrors of being a slave, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the book showed the people the horror, and made many Northerners, become abolitionist. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories,Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed for people to vote whether or not they wanted slavery, using popular sovereignty. As a result of the act many people from other states came and voted to vote for slavery in the new territories, causing 55 people to be killed from fights with pro slavery, and no slavery, this was known as bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Ruling
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. He had been taken to where Slavery was illegal, but later returned to Missouri, when his owner died he sued for his right to be a free man. The case went up to the supreme court which stated, African Americans are not citizens, and slaves are property. Thankfully Dred scott got his freedom but died only a few days later. -
John Brown's raid
The John Brown's raid happened because, John Brown armed slaves and raided the federal arsenal at Harper Ferry, in Virginia, to try and get more guns to give to slaves. John Brown was caught and hung for treason, while the North mourned him, while the south, was celebrating. -
1860 election
In the 1860 election, Abraham Lincoln was voted as president of United States of America, after he won South Carolina was the first of many to succeed for the U.S.A., . His first act was to make the session illegal, and still which were Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas succeed. Which caused the start of the Civil War.