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Kansas- Nebraska Act & Events Leading to the Civil War

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Missouri Compromise 1820

Civil War

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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.

Conflict over issues of how much control the federal government should have over the states, industrialization, trade, and especially slavery had increased tension between Northern and Southern states. After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, 11 Southern states seceded (or withdrew) from the Union and set up an independent government--the Confederate States of America. These events led to the outbreak of the Civil War--a brutal, bloody, four-year conflict that left the South defeated and ended slavery at the cost of more than half a million lives.

Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48).

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Kansas- Nebraska Act 1854

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas. Led to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas, and helped paved the way for the American Civil War (1861-65).

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Vocabulary

1. Kansas-Nebraska Act- Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

2. Guerrilla warfare- A form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

3. Arsenal- A collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group.

4. Boarder Ruffians- Pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there.

5. Treason- The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

6. Lawsuit- A claim or dispute brought to a court of law for adjudication

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