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Texas was paid $10 million to scale back their land in the west. California was admitted as a free state and Washington DC was required to end its slave trade in the city. -
Stated all slaves must be returned to their masters and anyone caught helping a slave could get up to 6 months in jail -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book sold 300,000 copies in the first year. Many joined the abolitionist movement after learning about the mistreatment of slaves -
Allowed each territory to decide on slavery based on popular sovereignty. Led to violence over slavery, like the Bleeding Kansas fight -
Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was property and not a person so he had no right to sue for his freedom. The ruling declared that prohibiting slavery in the North was unconstitutional -
Abolitionist John Brown led a group of men to seize weapons from Harpers Ferry to try and lead a slave revolt. South realized the extent the North would go to in order to free the slaves -
Lincoln was the only candidate against slavery and won despite no Southern states voting for him. The election showed how divided the country was and the South started to secede -
It was a federal fort in South Carolina and the South attacked it as the Union tried to resupply it. The North surrendered the fort to the South and the war had begun