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- The Compromise of 1850-After the Mexican American War and the gold rush. The United States gained more territory but there's great discussion about admitting California as a state. This would throw off the balance of slave and free states, so a senator, Henry Clay, helped achieve a compromise with the help of Steven Douglas. He eventually proposed the compromise as a series of five bills in order to pass it. The compromise fell apart in only a couple years.
- Let's enter California as a free state.
- Then let's have stricter fugitive slave laws/
- That will disrupt#160;the balance of free and slave states.
- The Dread Scott Case-Dread Scott was a slave in Alabama who later moved to Missouri and then Wisconsin. Here he married another slave and had two kids. They returned to Missouri but filed for freedom since they had been in a free state.#160; Their case eventually made it to the supreme court and the court ruled against Scott. The ruling in 1857 stated that blacks did not have rights in federal court, if a slave was in a free state that doesn't mean they were free,#160; and that slavery shouldn't have been outlawed in Wisconsin or anywhere.
- Once free, always free.
- Blacks have no right here and you are not free.
- The Kansas Nebraska Act-Broke up the democratic party. Stephen Douglas introduced the bill in#160; 1854. Attempted to organize territory from the eastern border of the Louisiana purchase to the west coast, that would end the future discussion of slavery. He came up with popular sovereignty, which allowed the people within each territory to decide the fate of slavery in their own territory. This; however, violated the Missouri compromise. The democrats against slavery in the north left the democratic party and would later go on to be part of the newly forming Republican party.#160;
- There can now be slaves north of the 36*30 line.
- What about the Missouri compromise of 1820?
- Bleeding Kansas-Newspapers in the 1850s popularized the term.#160; Would talk about the violence occurring in the Midwest. This violence was a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act and the new popular sovereignty.#160; There was a pro-slavery government set up in Lecompton and an anti-slavery government set up in#160; Topeka.#160; John Brown and his family murdered five pro-slavery people trying to settle. Charles Sumner was almost beaten to death on the floor of the United States senate by another senator.#160; On the eve of the Civil war, Kansas was entered as a free state.#160;
- You support slavery.
- We did nothing illegal.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin-Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed slavery first-hand and how it was a moral tragedy. She wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 detailing the horrors of slavery. Not until now were Northerns aware of the true horrific fates slaves endured in the South. Became one of the best-selling books, only second to the bible. Started an uproar among northerners and helped increase tensions between the north and south.#160;
- Have you read Uncle Tom's Cabin?
- I have and slavery needs to be outlawed immediately.#160;
- Fort Sumter-Fort Sumter was a fort in the harbor of Charleston South Carolina. After Lincoln was elected, South Carolina along with six other states will secede from the Union and form the confederacy.#160; They launch an attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. There were no casualties, but the Confederacy took control of the fort and this was the start of the American Civil War.
- You have no right here.#160;
- We're taking the Fort anyway.
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