Pre-Civil War Timeline

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  1. 4. Proviso unsuccessful proposal in the US to ban slavery territory from Mexico (1846)
  2. 5. Liberty Laws pre-civil war laws passed by N state governments to counteract the fugitive slave acts (1851)
  3. 7. Slave Act Act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if in free state (1850)
  4. 9. Compromise Missouri=slave state Maine=non slave state (1820)
  5. 11. of 1860 Abe Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860
  6. 13. of 1850 Admission of California as a "free state"
  7. 14. Railroad efforts of enslaved African Americans trying to gain their freedom by escaping bondage (1850s)
  8. 16. Act Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created new territories, allowed popular sovereignty (1854)
  9. 17. Tom's Cabin enslaved person being transported by boat to New Orleans (1852)
Down
  1. 1. Brown's Raid Brown and his men captured citizens and seized armory and arsenal (1859)
  2. 2. Kansas Series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas territory (1856)
  3. 3. Party Short-lived coalition political party in the US (1848)
  4. 4. Lloyd Printer, publisher, abolitionist, suffragist, civil rights activist, author of the liberator
  5. 6. Scott Enslaved people were not citizens of the US and get no protection (1857)
  6. 8. Debates Douglas=nationalizing slavery? Lincoln=abolitionist? (1858)
  7. 10. Secedes to protect the states rights, disagreements over slavery (1861)
  8. 12. Doctrine Douglas says a territory could prevent slavery by failing to pass favorable legislation (1858)
  9. 15. Party Emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into the American territories (1854)