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European colonists decided that endentured servants were too expencive and needed a new type of free servant. In 1619 the Dutch traders brought the first African American slaves to America,
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Slave trade was in one of the Slavery Abolisiing Acts that prevented America from buying new slaves.
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A compromise that said anyy states above 36 30' north was a free state and anywhere velow was a slave state.
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This was a document signed as part of the Treaty of the Mexican war that said that any land gained by the treaty was not allowed to have slavery.
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This compromise made it so the free and slave states would be balanced.
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They were laws that allowed the capture of escaped slaves and return them to their masters.
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The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book that was against slavery and wanted to encourage people to Abolish slavery.
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THe act allowed people in Kansas and Nebrasca to decide for themselves whether or not to support slavery.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. -
In this court case it was decided that African Americans born in America or not were not citizens of America and could not sue people in a court of law.
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John Brown and a group of men raided Harper's Ferry which was the SOuth's largest weapons storage area to give to the slaves so they can fight back.
