DC bans slave trade
Proposed by Stephen A Douglas
Compromise of 1850
Slavery legal in all territories
1854
Supreme Court Case
Kansas Nebraska Act
led to Bleeding Kansas
Popular Sovereignty in former Mexican territories
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Roger Taney ruled: Slaves are property
Fugitive Slave Act passed
California enters as a free state
Slavery would be voted on in Kansas & Nebraska Territories (pop sov)
