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They tried to pass a bill to prohibit slavery
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It was a compromise where they decided that the people of a state would vote on if it should be a slave state or a free state.
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This book told lots of people about slavery
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The government made two territories and then the people in those territories voted on laws like slavery.
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John Brown led 7 people there. They murdered 5 of them.
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This was a decision where a slave was suing because he was a slave in a free state.
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This was a debate between the democrats and republicans for senate.
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John Brown and a small group of people attacked Harpers Ferry, Virgina to get the guns that the U.S. Army stored there.
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He beat the democrat that was up for election.
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They wanted to leave the union so they didn’t have to deal with slavery and the government.
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6 more states went out of the union
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Confederate guns shot and opened fire. The next day Anderson and the commander evacuated.
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