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Missouri enters as a slave state
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Lincoln is elected president
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Protective tariff passed in 1824, which raises the duty from 20% to 33.3%. This causes England to buy southern cotton at a
lower price.
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A Civil War is avoided by the comprise tariff negotiated by Clay and Calhoun.
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California enters the Union as a free state.
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The Federal Government says secession is unconstitutional
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Above the 36⁰ 30’ is a free state and below the line is a slave state
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South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification in response to the Tariff of Abominations. This document says states have
the right to nullify a federal law if they believe it threatens the welfare of the state.
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Harriett Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act allows Nebraska and Kansas to decide whether they are a free state or slave state based on popular
sovereignty.
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Lincoln is the first president to openly oppose the expansion of slavery
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John C. Calhoun resigns as Vice President to lead the nullification movement in South Carolina.
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No runaway slaves join John Brown’s revolt like he planned
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Slave trade is ended in Washington D.C.
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Moved to Charleston because of a rumor of a small pox outbreak in Columbia and also because Columbia was not as
sympathetic to secession as Charleston
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Congress nullifies (ends) the Missouri Compromise with the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Lincoln represents the newly formed Republican Party
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Violence breaks out between pro-slavery people and abolitionists in Kansas
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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun work together to come up with a compromise tariff, which they do in 1832 and again in 1833.
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John Brown is convicted of treason and hung
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Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate
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Border drawn at the southern border of Missouri (the 36⁰ 30’ line)
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Charles Sumner gives a speech in response to Bleeding Kansas and personally insults Pierce Butler
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Gives Utah and New Mexico the right to use popular sovereignty to decide whether they will be a free state or a slave state.
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Dred Scott moved from Missouri with his owner to free states, and then moved back to Missouri
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Most influential book of the 19th century is published- Lincoln calls it the book that starts the war
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People from the North and South move into Kansas to vote
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Expands slavery into other states by declaring the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 unconstitutional.
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John Brown leads a group of supporters to Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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Four candidates are Lincoln, Breckenridge, Douglas, and Bell
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Maine enters the union as a free state
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The North convinces Congress to raise the tariff from 33.3% to 50% in 1828, this becomes known as the “Tariff of
Abominations”
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Militias begin to form throughout the South, which eventually becomes the Confederate Army
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Brooks is thrown out of Congress but is regarded as a hero in the South and receives multiple canes.
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A slave named Dred Scott goes to the Supreme Court to fight for his freedom.
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The election is very split between the North and the South- the South votes for Breckenridge, while the North votes for Lincoln
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John Brown captures the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, but is then overtaken by the VA militia
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The Fugitive Slave Law is passed, which forces people in the north to help the south catch runaway slaves.
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10 states in the South do not even allow Lincoln’s name on the ballot
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Meeting reconvened Dec. 20th, adopted the Ordinance of Secession
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Dred Scott believed he should be free since he lived in free states
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John Brown cuts up five pro-slavery people in Kansas
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The Supreme Court decides that slaves are not citizens and cannot sue in court and that the federal government cannot
legislate whether or not a state is free.
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Andrew Jackson asks Congress to pass the Force Bill, which gives him the right to use military force to enforce the tariffs in
South Carolina.
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Maintains the balance between the slave states and free states in the Louisiana Purchase territories
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The abolition movement increases in the North as a result of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book.
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Leads to the Secession Convention of 1860 in South Carolina