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Compromise of 1850
California applied to be a free state. It increased sectionalism because there was one more state that wanted to be free and it aggravated the south
Photo by Sprengben [why not get a friend]
Fugitive Slave Act
1850
Required northerners to help catch runaway slaves.
Made northerners mad because they didn't want to support slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
A novel about how terrible slavery was.
Photo by coloneljohnbritt
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
An act that divided Nebraska territory
into Nebraska and Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
1855
People snuck into Kansas illegally to vote for both slavery and anti slavery.
Proslavery mobs attacked the town of Lawrence destroying antislavery government
Photo by Eric Fischer
Dred Scott decision
1856
Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to the free states and was said no to sue for his freedom.
Photo by army.arch
Harper's Ferry
1859
John Brown has the idea to collect guns and slaves to fight back. No slaves joined and eventually John and his men were captured and were killed.
Photo by Tony Fischer Photography
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was the election of Abraham Lincoln because all of the north voted for him and he wasn't trusted by the south
Photo by Believe Creative
