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Missouri wanted to be a state but was over the line of the Ohio river. The north wanted them to be a free state but the south wanted it to be a slave state. Missouri became a slave state but to keep the peace they admitted Maine as a free state.
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A rebellion led by Nat Turner that killed a lot of people -
It made it so they couldn't talk about a certain thing in congress.
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Wilmot wanted to take away slavery and devoted his life to doing that. -
Harriet Tubman finds out she might be sold to a place farther in the south. She decided to run away. Later on she becomes a big leader in the underground railroad. -
By admitting California as a free state it would allow Utah and New mexico to decide what they wanted. This would please both the south and north.
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This book made northerners mad about how slaves were treated. -
This made the southerns mad because it meant more free states.
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Kansas and Nebraska became territories and the south wanted them to be slave states the north wanted them to be free. They ended up being free.
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A slave owner took his slave to the south for a little bit and the slave tried to become free but it didn't work. It made the south happy and the north mad. -
Both Lincoln and Douglas were running for president. Lincoln was republican and Douglas was democrat. -
John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry to get more weapons and end slavery.
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Lincoln was elected as president and the south was mad because he wasn't even on there balet. They were also scared that he would take slavery away.