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Missouri becomes a slave state while Maine becomes a free state making the balance of power between the rivaling groups equal. A compromise was finally reached after long debate.
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California becomes a free state while popular sovereignty is introduced in the other states allowing the people to vote on this issue This also introduced the much hated fugitive slave act which required northeners to capture and send back any slaves on the run.
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It was to show the EVILS of slavery by telling the story of an older slave who was whipped to death by his owner.
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this act ensured that slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. This caused violence to breakout in the senate. This event caused the differences the pro and anti slave had between each other to turn to bloodshed.
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John Brown and four of his sons, decide to take the law into their own hands. They ride into a small town named and pull five pro-slavery men out of their beds in the middle of the night.
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Scott was a slave in a free territory. His slave owner decided to move into a slave state. His owner ended up dying and Scott had abolitionist attorneys file a law suit for him. He ended up losing because they say he is not a person, but he is property. Northerners hated this while Southerners loved it. They also ruled that Congress couldn't ban slavery in the territories.
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Lincoln and Douglass debated on how to decide what to do with slavery. Lincoln wanted to abolish it completely, while Douglass wanted to decide it by popular sovereignty. Lincoln also knew that the country would not survive if the arguments and fighting over slavery continued.
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John Brown led five blacks and thirteen whites into Harper’s Ferry.They planned to raid an arsenal and start a slave revolt.A number of his men died and Brown was arrested by Robert E. Lee.
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Lincoln is elected which causes the south to be outraged because he did not receive any electoral votes from the south. Lincolns name did not even appear on the ballot in the south. So to the south this election seemed a bit one sided.
