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The Underground Railroad was a set of routes and paths that slaves used to escape their owners.
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Eli Whitney created and patented a machine that removed cotton seeds from the fibers.
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Missouri Wanted to be a slave state, but that would cause imbalance. They added Maine as a free state to even it out.
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The Liberator was a weekly newspaper in Boston that was very Anti-Slavery.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of slaves that happened in Southampton County, Virginia
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The Tariff of 1828 & Nullification Crisis was about taxes between 1828 and 1832 in South Carolina were unconstitutional and unenforceable after 2/1/1833
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The Wilmot Proviso was an American law proposed to try to ban slavery from the acquired territory from Mexico.
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In attempt to avoid a problem between North and South, Senator Henry Clay showed a series of resolutions, including amending the Fugitive Slave Act and abolishing the slave trade in Washington D.C.
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'Bleeding Kansas' was a series of violent political acts between "Free-Staters" and people for slavery. Link
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a repeal on the Missouri Compromise, allowing Slavery above the original line and making it legal in parts of the north.
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt for a slave revolt by taking over a US arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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Fort Sumter, being the location for two battles of the civil war, was supposed to be a large, very barricaded fort. It was never completed, as South Carolina seceded from the Union
