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Agreement to keep the slave and free states balanced. Maine entered as a free state while Missouri was a slave state.
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Nat Turner was a preacher who believed god sent him to free the slaves .Scared the south slave holders which caused them to restrict slave freedom even less.
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Bill which banned slavery in new territory from Mexico. After the Mexican War neither slavery shall exist in any territory gained from Mexico.
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US expanded territories by achieving New Mexico, California, Texas, and Rio Grande River. The Mexican government surrendered to the US giving them upper California and New Mexico.
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Line used to separate the free/slave states. Popular sovereignty is used to determine slave or free states.
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Law to help runaway slaves if they ran to a free state. They should contact their slave owner for them to be retrieved.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a northerner who added to the abolition movement. Book about fugitive slave laws which led to an abolitionist from the northerner people.
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Law that allowed states to vote for them to be a free or slave state. Which was caused by Sen. Douglas by wanting to divided the country and using popular sovereignty.
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All territories were opened up to slavery again. Northern lawmakers weren't able to keep slavery out of the territories.
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Small group of men which raided Harper's Ferry to seize weapons to start a slave rebellion. John Brown was a northerner who hated slavery which the northerner say him as a hero while the southern saw him as a villain.
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Elected for President with Hannibal Hamlin and won without any votes from the southern states. Helped pass the Thirteenth Amendment which ended slavery.
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Convention that led to secede from the Union which state's right allowed them to secede.
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South states seceded from the union which made them want to go independent. First shot of the civil war were fired here which led to 4 more states to seceded.
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Republic formed and composed the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States.
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Mini civil war against pro and anti slavery people which are against the North and South.
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Robert Lee wanted wanted to carry war towards the Northern states. Also allowed Lee to retreat which led to Lincoln victory and passed the emancipation proclamation.
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Stopped Southern Army from getting land from North which costed the South to lose millions of slaves.
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Union gained control of Mississippi river and a split between the confederate side into two. Captured last confederate fortress on the Mississippi River which Ulysses S. Grant surrounded John C. Pemberton cutting off supply's and reinforcements.
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Gereral Lee surrender at Appomattox courthouse which led to the Union being save which freed the slaves
