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Abolitionist John Brown John Brown's Raid
seized the federal arsenal
in Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
hoping to inspire local
slaves to join a revolution
that would destroy slavery
in the south. It failed.
,1820 agreement calling for Missouri Compromise
the admission of Missouri
as a slave state and main
as a free state and
banning slavery in the
Louisiana Purchase
territory north of the
36*30' latitude.
Political agreement that Compromise of 1850
allowed California to be
admitted as a free state by
allowing popular
sovereignty in the
territories and enacting a
stricter fugitive slave law.
A Missouri slave sued for Dred Scott Decision
his freedom, claiming that
his four year stay in the
northern portion of the
Louisiana Territory made
free land by the Missouri
Compromise had made
him a free man. The U.S,
Supreme Court decided
he couldn't sue in federal
court because he was
property, not a citizen.
1854 law that divided the Kansas Nebraska Act
Nebraska Territory in
Kansas and Nebraska
giving each territory the
right to decide whether or
not to allow slavery.
, Term used to describe the Bleeding Kansas
1854-1856 violence
between proslavery and
antislavery supporters in
Kansas.
Northern Civil War Anaconda Plan
strategy to starve the
South by blockading
seaports and controlling
the Mississippi River.
Decree by President Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln that freed
enslaved people living in
Confederate states still in
rebellion.
Program implemented by Reconstruction
the federal government
between 1865 and 1877 to
repair damage to the
South caused by the Civil
War and restore the
southern states to the
Union.
Rights of Citizens (Equal 14th Amendment
Protection)
Freed all Slaves 13th Amendment
African Americans have 15th Amendment
the right to vote and
Congress and enforce it
by passing laws.