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The Southern states were being treated as an agricultural colony of the North and bled dry.
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The Dred Scott decision overturned the Missouri compromise which restricted slavery in US territories
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The movement to abolish slavery were becoming more influential. There wss support to abolish slavery worlwide.
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The debate over slavery led to succession and the northern & western states fought to preserve the Union.
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Some abolitionists helped slaves run away by using the underground railroad.Northerners wanted to choose which parts of the Constitution they would enforce, while expecting the South to honor the entire document.
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Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas engaged in a series of debates.
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The book , Uncle Toms Cabin, offered a vision of slavery that few in the nation had seen before. It started a wave of anti-slavery sentiment across the nation
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Brown and a band of followers seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. They thought is was an attempt to arm a slave insurrection. They were hanged and Southerners came to believe this was proof the North intended to wage a war of extermination against white Southerners
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president creating tension between the North & South.
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The fort’s commander, Major Robert Anderson, refused to surrender.The Confederates opened fire with cannons. War begun
