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• Lecompton Constitution Rejected
  Aug 9, 1858

  After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, Kansas was allowed to choose if they were going to be free or slave. They drafted the Lecompton constitution, this would make them a slave state. However, the government sent it back for Kansas to vote on it. It was rejected and Kansas became free
  http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/tp/secessionevents.htm

• Dred Scott Decision
  Mar 1857

  Dred Scott, a slave, sued his owner for his freedom since he was in a free state. Sadly, Chief Justice Roger Taney denied his freedom saying he was a slave and had no right to sue, right there the case was null and void, but he also realized the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were unconstitutional, they banned slavery in areas which was illegeal according to the 5th Amendment.

• Pottawatomie Massacre
  May 24, 1856

  John Brown and his men attacked and killed pro-slavery men. They dragged them into the street and killed them with swords.

• Brooks Attacks Sumner
  May 22, 1856

  Charles Sumner critisized pro-slavery people in Kansas and insulted SC. So, Preston Brooks, a relative of the Senator of SC, walked into Senate and brutally beat Sumner down with a cane until he was unconscious. He was only fined $300.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
  May 30, 1854

  Stephen Douglas wanted to build a railroad to the Pacific, but the South wanted a railroad in the South. So, to build it in the North, Douglas opened Louisianna to slavery.
  http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  Mar 1852

  Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book about the harsh realitys of slavery. Many slave owners denied the stuff was true, but the North liked it.

• Compromise of 1850
  Sep 28, 1850

  Henry Clay (left), proposed this, said that California would be free, Mexican Session land would be decided by popular soereignty tough Fugitive Slave Law, and no slave trading in D.C.,

• The Fugitive Slave Act
  Sep 18, 1850

  Thisact said it was a crime to help runaway slaves. the blacks went to Canada more, the Northerners felt unethicle and unconstitutional.

• The Northwest Ordinance
  Jul 13, 1787

  This declared that any land settled west cannot have slavery. This was supposed to encourage settlment west.