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The compromise of 1850 was the division of “the large compromise initiative”, so instead of one large bill to vote on, the house and senate could vote for separate bills and veto others instead of just giving one answer for the whole bill. This was a political standpoint as it was made for a more reasonable voting process.
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California became a state in 1850. The creation of California was controversial because of its descrepencies between slave and free states. This issue also contributed to the sparking of the civil war.
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Uncle Toms Cabin was a novel written in 1852, by Harriet Stowe. This book recollected the portrayal of slavery in the south and the oppressive behaviors. This novel changed the views of slavery in the north for the better and upset southerners. This novel certainly had a social impact.
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Bleeding Kansas was known as the “territorial civil war” breaking out from two parties in the state of Kansas, the pro slavery settlers and anti slavery settlers. Kansas could not come to a compromise leading to unethical solutions suck as, the plundering of shops and even arson. This was a social and political movement because of its regards to finding compromise.
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The Kansas Nebraska act allowed the states of Kansas and Nebraska to choose for themselves where their or not to invite slavery into their states, repealing the Missouri compromise. This was a political act seeing as it related to the states opinions on slavery.
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The republican party was created because of the tensions over slavery in the nation. It was formed by different political groups who were anti-slavery. The Republican Party contributed to the success of southern states, and has been seen to possibly contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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This is the name of the brutal beating that Charles sumner was exposed to, from representative, Preston Brooks. This was because of Sumners allegations of Kansas’ role in forcing slavery upon the rest of the state. This was a social matter, having to with two men in a quarrel for what is right and wrong
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The Dred Scott decision was the decision of the Federal court on if former slave, Dred Scott was to be a free man, or still held by the oppressive chains of slavery. There were many different opinions on this because he lived in a free state, therefore, claiming that he deserves the right to be a free man. This was a social and political matter because of its relations to whether or not African-Americans, who have descended from Africans, could be free people.
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Lincolns a house divided speech was President Lincolns way of informing the nation that they should not be divided by the issue of slavery. He argued that the nation could not remain half sleeve and a half free. This speech gave Lincoln the role of a leading figure in US history, and. He argued that the nation could not remain half slave and half free. This speech gave Lincoln the role of a leading figure in US history.
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Lincoln re-election marked the success of his presidency and stated how he would be the one to lead the nation through civil war.