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- Compromise of 1850
- 1. Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.2. Divided to rest of the Mexican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah.3. Ended the slave trade in Washington D.C., the nation's capital.
- 4. Included a strict, fugitive slave law.5.Settled a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico.
- novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States1851/52 and in book form in 1852.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Brown traveled to Kansas with five of his sons to fight against the proslavery forces in the contest over that territory. Brownpersonally sought revenge.
- This book was written to inform readers of the appalling realities of American slavery.
- it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
- This was also known as "Bleeding Kansas" . It repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
- This case was also known as Dred Scott Vs. Sandford. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore did not have the right to sue infederal court.
- The Dred Scott case also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott.
- Dred Scott Case
- John Brown was an Abolitionist. He led a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, in attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
- John Brown’s Raid at Harpers Ferry
- The Republican Party ticket of Hannibal HamlinandAbraham Lincoln, won a national plurality , a popular majority in the north where states had already abolished slavery .
- Lincoln's election served as the main catalyst of the American Civil War. This election resulted in the first Republican president being elected.
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