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--slavery will not be allowed above the 36 30 line
--Maine enters as a free state
--Missouri enters as a slave state -
tariff of Abominations divides the country.
The North supports it and the South opposes it. -
1.California enters as a free state.
2.slave trade outlawed in Washington D.C.
3.Terretories will use popular sovereignty to determine slave status.
4. passage of the fugitive slave law -
official platform was to stop the expansion of slavery.
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mini civil war in Kansas over the slavery debate- Violence broke out between the two side- would Kansas be a free state?
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the supreme court ruled that scott was not a citizen and could not be free and also Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
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debates for the Illinois Senate seat between Abraham Lincln & Stephen Douglas.
lincoln- expressed his belief that the nation could not exist as half free & half slave
Douglas- supported popular soverignty as a method to determining slavery. -
abolitionist John Brown led a raid on a fedral arsenal in Virginia in an attempt to arm slaves and rebel. his raid failed and he was executed for treason.
the north declared Brown a hero and the South used the raid as an attack on republicans. -
republican: Lincoln
Democrats: split into 2 parties (breckenridge and douglas)
Constitutional party: Bell
Lincoln wins !! -
!st official battle of the civil war
the confederate troops forced the union surrender of the fort in charleston SC
