Monday, May 18, 2015

Leading to the Civil War

Missouri Compromise (1820)- regulated slavery in the Western territories.




Wilmot Proviso (1846)- banned slavery in any territory from the Mexican War.





Compromise of 1850- slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.




Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)- a book about slavery, wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe



Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)-  allowed white male settlers to determine popular sovereignty.



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