history

Explain each of the following and their influence on the approaching Civil War:

1. Missouri Compromise (1820)

2. Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

3. Comproise  of 1850

4. Fugitive Slave Laws

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

6. Popular Soverignty

7. Dred Scott Decision (1857)

8. Election of 1860