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A compromise to let states enter as either a slave state or a free state by a longitude line to keep the peace.
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Nat Turner tried to get slaves to rise up against their owners and they killed over 60 whites.
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A war with Mexico over the land of modern-day Texas, Nevada, and New Mexico.
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Tried to pass a law that would close slavery in new states that we got from Mexico.
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More states came in as free and the fugitive slave laws became more enforced.
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When slaves escaped up north the owner could go and get them.
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A novel about a southern plantation that opened the eyes of the northerners.
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Let Kansas and Nebraska decide whether they were free or slave by popular sovereignty, leading to Bleeding Kansas.
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Mini-war over the fact of popular sovereignty and whether or not they would be a free or slave state.
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Slaves were deemed not citizens and the MC of 1850 was deemed unconstitutional.
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John Brown raided the national arsenal and was tried as a traitor.
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This election made the southerners extremely mad.
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The first to secede after Abe was elected.
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All 11 states had seceded at this point and the north knew the war was just beginning.
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The first battle of the civil war.
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Battle on union ground, union victory, bloodiest single-day battle
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North takes over the Mississippi river
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Battle on union ground bloodiest multi-day battle
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Where the treaty was signed so the war was over.
