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The people of Missouri wanted to enter the union as this type of state Category 1 - 10

For Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, this was created as a free state Category 1 - 20

This Kentucky senator was the main creator of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

The Missouri Compromise line settled where slavery could and could not exist throughout this territory

This was the year that the Missouri Compromise was created

In 1850, this state wanted to enter the union as a free state

The new territories being discussed in 1850 were gained as a result of this event

This law was created to appease the southern states

As a result of the Compromise, this was officially ended in Washington DC

As a result of the compromise, slavery was to be allowed in these two territories

As tensions over the crisis in Kansas escalated, Charles Sumner was viciously beaten on the floor of this

He traveled to the Kansas Territory with his sons and murdered pro-slavery settlers

This Illinois Senator wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act, originally as a way to settle the territories quickly, to allow for a railroad line to California

By allowing people in Kansas to choose if they wanted slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act cancelled out this older law

The Ostend Manifesto was a secret document about the US taking this by force

This state was the first to declare independence from the union

This political party was created by abolitionist

The shelling of this federal fort in Charleston Harbor was the official start to the Civil War

The results of the presidential election of this year was what finally caused the South to declare independence

John Brown lead the raid on the federal arsenal here in an attempt to start a massive slave rebellion

Tuesday evening, this passed directly in front of the sun (from our vantage point) for the last time before the year 2117

He sued his owner for his freedom, taking his case all the way to the US Supreme Court

This native tribe was forced to relocate by the government in what became known as “The Trail of Tears”

She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

This uprising in Western Pennsylvania in 1793 was put down by President Washington, and was the only time that a sitting president actually lead the army from the front