Events Leading up to the Civil war
By: Francisco Redondo
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850
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Manuscript
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Henry Clay
The man who worked out the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Images/compromise.jpg
The significance of the Compromise of 1850 to the Civil war is that it delayed the tensions in the United States postponing the Civil War.
The Fugitive Slave Law
Reward for slaves
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bounty hunters
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slaves
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The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 caused abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery.
The Dred Scott decision of 1857
Dred Scott
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Dred Scott case
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Taney the court Judge
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The Dred scott Decision was significant to the Civil war because it widened the political gap between the north and the south which led to fighting and the civil war.
The Kansas Nebraska act of 1854
The map
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Forcing slavery down the throat
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Abrham Lincoln
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This significant to the Civil war because it alowed people that live in Kansas or Nebraska to vote weather they wanted slavery or not.
John Brown's Raid in Harpers ferry in 1859
Captured John Brown
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John Brown Raid
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John Brown Hanging
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