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The most important event to me is the Underground Railroad. To me its the most important because it gave slaves the opportunity to escape slavery. Its also important to see it as a stepping stone into the Civil War.

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The Personal Liberty Laws were statutes passed in the nine northern states that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves. These were important because it gave slaves a fair chance to get out of slavery. (593)

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A best selling book published by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe that delivered the message that slavery wasn't just a political contest but also a great moral struggle. (595)

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John Brown led a band of 21 men into Harpers Ferry, Virginia to seize the federal arsenal there. It was important because both the Union and Confederacy wanted control of Harpers Ferry. (623)

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A system in which the residents vote to decide on an issue. Important because it further provides to the idea of a democracy. (584)

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Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom because he believed he had become a free person by living in a free state for several years, the court ruled slaves did not have the same rights of citizens because they were inferior, an it also ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. This was important because it set as clear line that slavery could not be excluded. (620)

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The Underground Railroad was a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or safe areas in the Free States. This was important because it allowed slaves to escape to freedom. (593)

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The Kansas Nebraska Act established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. (597)

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A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. (583)

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During a debate in Freeport Douglas' response to Lincoln later became known as the freeport doctrine. He basically said that any territory could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it. (623)

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Wilmot Proviso was unsuccessful amendment to the 1846 military appropriations bill, where it said they none of the the territory acquired in the Mexico war would be open to slavery. Again it fueled the Civil War by dividing the nation. (582)

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Bleeding Kansas was a name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and anti slavery forces. It was important because it was a precursor to what we say in the Civil war. (599)

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Presidencial election where Lincoln won with winning any southern states. Turning point for slavery as Lincoln would go on and abolish it.  (627)

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During a race for the U.S. Senate in 1858 Lincoln (Democrat) and Douglas (Republican). Another turning point for slavery as Douglas said people get around the Supreme Courts Dred ruling. (621)