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Let Missouri in as a slave state and Maine in a free state, thus maintaining balance of free and slave states.
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Slave Rebellion led by Nat Turner. Happened in Southampton country, Virginia; the rebels killed around 60 people.
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Proposal to keep the entire Mexican territory free states. Did not pass.
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War over the land currently known as Texas. Main cause of the war was Americas westward expansion. Ended 02/02/1848.
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Laws were passed in 1850 dealing with issue of slavery, Fugitive Slave Act was added and the slave trade Washington D.C. was banned.
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Run away slaves must be returned to their owners if found.
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Book about what it was like being a slave working in the fields.
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Used popular sovereignty to determine if states could own slaves or not.
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Series of Civil violence in Kansas. All over Slaves.
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Dred Scott was denied the right to sue because slaves were not counted as citizens.
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Tried to led slave rebellion, but no one showed up so he ended up being trapped and eventually killed for treason. North saw him as a martyr and show saw him as a terrorist.
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Abe won election without a single southern vote. South seceded for the US soon after he was elected.
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They had already determined that if Abe Lincoln won the election they would leave the US. Other southern states followed their lead.
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Leaders from 6 different seceded states put together a unified government.
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Union forces surrender during this battle.
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Gave Abe Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
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Union gained the control over the Mississippi River. Ended in July of 1863
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Union victory. Was the bloodiest battle of the war. Ended July 3, 1863
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to General Grant.
