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Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also keeping Maine as a free state. It also drew a line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions
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after the mexican war, america aquired the land that is the midwestern region which sparked the conflict, should slavery be allowed in the new states.
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it was made up of laws allowing California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty,
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This was a controversial element of the 1850 compromise and increased the Northerners fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It mandated that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law.
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a fight to the death between Senator Brooks and Senator Sumner over slavery positions.
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repealed the missouri compromise and allowed white mak\les to decide whether they would allow slaves or not.
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A series of violent political protests between neighboring cities
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an attempt by john Brown to start an armed slave revolt.
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the immmediate impetus election because of the civil war. the election was won by abraham lincoln
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south carolina becomes to first state to sucede from the us. sparking the civil war
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the battle of fort sumner was the bombing and surrender of Fort Sumter, in South Carolina, that started the American civil war
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plan by union to set up a blockade around the country
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Order by LIncoln that feed the slaves
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One of the Bloodiest battles in the civil war
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name given to the military Savannah Campaign
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and incident where a man named dredd scott was unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
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the Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on t April 9, 1865, was the final battleof Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's
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was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union land