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This helped lead to the civil war because it compromised to protect slavery with the constitution.
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Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. A line was also drawn through the unincorporated western territories dividing north and south as free and slave.
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Nat turner's rebellion had led over 60 enslaved Africans to kill almost 60 white people.
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Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being.
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Fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
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Fort Sumter in South Carolina, suddenly became outposts in a foreign land. Abraham Lincoln made the decision to send fresh supplies. Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold.They then surrendered on April 14.
