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President James Polk provoked war, Abraham Lincoln (whig) wanted war to expand slavery.
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California became a free state, Texas became a slave state, other states got popular sovereignty.
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Citizens were paid to arrest runaway slaves.
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Network of whites or free people offering shelter to slaves that escaped through the course of slavery.
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Literature over the issues on slavery was written to target children and people.
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Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery based off of popular sovereignty. -
Attacks and violence leading up to the civil war. -
Brooks a pro- slavery democrat attacked Sumner an anti-slavery Republican with a cane in 1856. -
Members of the Whig party est this party to be anti-slavery in western territory. -
Constitution that went in Kansas excluding free people of color from its bill of rights. -
Banks were failing and Americans lost money for railroads and couldn’t pay their debts.
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Black Americans could not be citizens.
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Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery.
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Brown was hung from his movement of trying to end slavery, Brown is Praised in the North, but hated in the south
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Lincoln won starting civil war to end the expantion of slavery.