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The balance of power was separated between slave and free states. This led to conflict between the states.
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Slave rebellion led by Nat Turner involving slaves who killed whites. Inspired the Virginia Slavery debate.
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War fought over Texas land between Mexico and America. This doubled the size of the U.S.
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A proposal in the U.S congress to ban slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico. This proposal was unsuccessful.
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Five laws passed creating California as a free state. Utah and New Mexico were left to decide whether to be a slave or free state. Texas and New Mexico established a border.
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Act that required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state. The Federal Government was responsible for finding and returning, escaped slaves.
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Anti-Slave novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book widened the arguments between the North and South. This weakened British sympathy the South. The North grew stronger in abolitionism.
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The Missouri Compromise was reversed. This allowed Slavery to be legal in the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Pro and anti-slavery mini war. Led to Republican Party.
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The U.S Supreme Court exceeded in Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the west and north.
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Raid with a small group of people led by John Brown. Attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
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Lincoln did not want slavery to expand anymore. He refused to accept any resolution that would result in Southern succession from the union.
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The first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina was one of the founding member sates of the Confederacy.
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7 southern states left the Union to make up the Confederate states. These states including, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and with representatives from Texas.
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Battle between Union and Confederate. The Union were forced to surrender the fort.
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Enabled the Union to repel the first Confederate invasion of the North. A tide of momentum swept Robert E. Lee's army of Northern Virginia. This halted his invasion of Maryland. This allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Victory for the Union that gave them control over the Mississippi river. The Union shut down confederate trade, transportation, and military.
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The Confederates were winning the war, but the Union won this battle. The Union forces halted Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army.
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The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee to the Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.
