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Missouri Compromise
To keep the Senate equal, Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
California is a free state. Other states will vote and decide for themselves about slavery. Wash D.C will not allow slave trade.They will pass the fugitive of slave act -
Fugitive slave act
People from north were required to help turn in escaped slaves -
uncle tom's cabin published
Harriet Breuner wrote a book about how horrible slavery was. -
kansas-nebraska act
This large region was divided into two territories because the idea that the settlers of the new territories should decide if slavery would be legal there. -
dred Scott case
he was going to court for him to be free because his master moved to a free state that and said he should be free, and sued and he lost -
John brown;s raid on harpers ferry
Brown carried his slaves colonist from Kansas act. To the east.Sixteen people were killed in the raid, including ten of his followers -
south Carolina secedes
South Carolina became the first to secede late February 1860 because of Abraham Lincoln a known oppenet of slavery. When he was elected president South Carolina legislature perceived a threat -
Election of the 1860
November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president. He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West.