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Missouri compromise
http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise Description: during this time the hate and pressure were very high. anti slaves people where at edge with people that think the idea of slaves is a good idea. this compromise stopped this conflict. zits also Convince everyone to be friends Primary Resource
Link: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331 the first written document of the compromise of 1850 -
Wilmot Proviso
He wanted to create a law that bans slavery in any territory acquired from mexico in the Mexican war. Many people in the government didn't want the Wilmot Proviso to become a thing. Many citizens did want the Wilmot Proviso to be a thing and they started arguing on weather it should or should not be a thing. After a very long time of arguing the government agreed to make it part of the Amendments. http://www.history.com/topics/wilmot-proviso -
fugitive slave act
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts
the fugitive slave act took place in the 1850s. this act or (law) was a law that went over the penalty that slave had to endure if they ran away and got caught again. most slaves were worked until dead if not they would be wiped. as you can tell this was a huge problem and slaves were not considered property. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a signing of five different bills. These bills where passed by the United States Congress. in September 1850, This gets rid of a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states about the status of territories is acquired. This was all going down during the Mexican–American War. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin
Tom was a former slave and he made a book on the hard lives that slaves had to endure.This told people the truth about slavery and made more people anti slavery people. If it wasn't for this book then a good amount of people could still be for slavery. Uncle Toms Cabin helped open the eyes of the people and showed them how really bad slavery was. Uncle Toms Cabin was the most popular book in the 19 hundreds. -
Kansas Nebraska Act / Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 got rid of previous legislation that varied the expansion of slavery, like the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. Primary Resource
Link: https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=033/llcg033.db&recNum=222 First documented debate about “bleeding kansas” -
Dred Scott
Link:http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case Description: the Dred Scott case was a case that involved a former slave which ran away from a slave state and went to a free state. Dred thought that if he was in a free state then he would be free thus a huge court case went over this very topic. slave owners though that they were able to take back slaves even if they were considered free. -
Lincoln Douglass debate
The Lincoln Douglass debate was about slavery. Abraham Lincoln wanted to end slavery in the states but Stephen A. Douglass wanted it to continue and expand into other states. None of them won the popular vote. Eventually tho Abraham Lincoln won and a war broke out between the north and the south. This was called the civil war. After years of fighting the north won and ended slavery. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32b.asp -
John Brown’s Raid
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into a town called Harper's ferry, Virginia. John Browns plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would take control the guns and ammo in the federal arsenal. arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. Primary Resource
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http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/bbsms12-0016.html
john brown's first letter to the government -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States as a divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to become president. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote. Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois had all lost to Lincoln.
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Link:http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/images/lincolntickett.jpg
Description:Lincolns voting ballot -
Lincoln’s Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States as a divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to become president. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote. Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois had all lost to Lincoln.
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Link:http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/images/lincolntickett.jpg
Description:Lincolns voting ballot -
southern secession
The southern secession was a time period when the north and south were getting made at each other soon leading to the south seceding. why you may ask, well the hole thing started over the idea of slavery. the north liked the idea of free slaves while the south wanted slaves to be slave. the south final left when Abe Lincoln came into office and said get rid of the slaves or leave and thats what happened. so the north went to war and ended up wining when the south gave up.
