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missiouri compromise
James Monroe wrote it. it was between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Wilmot Proviso
david wilmont, the House of Representatives considered an appropriations bill designed to provide $2,000,000 for negotiating with the Mexican government. Wilmot introduced a rider to that measure -
Compromise of 1850
between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
the land lay north of the 36°30' parallel — where slavery had been outlawed by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
bleeding kansas
a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave. His owner took him outside the south and through states that did not allow slavery.the Court denied Scott's request. For only the second time in its history the Supreme Court ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional. -
John Brown’s Raid
it happened on harpers fairy, and it was about seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
