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Effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states making Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people. This led to a massacre of up to 200 black people and prohibiting the education of slaves.
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The first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.
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Unsuccessful proposal to
ban slavery in the land
acquired from Mexico. -
Laws passed to deal with
slavery and territory
expansion. -
Slaves were required to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state.
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story published to open the eyes of people in the north.
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Created the states of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed them to decided for either slaves or free
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fight caused from the
debate weather or not to
allow slavery. -
Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom but was not successful and claimed he was not a citizen.
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He took over a arsenal and wanted to start a slave revolt to free .
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was a four way contest and Lincoln was apart of the
republican party -
They were not happy with Lincoln as president and became the first slave state to secede
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The
states did not like The
election of Lincoln so
they seceded and
created their own
country. -
First battle of the Civil War was fought here
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the Confederate invasion of Maryland an advance that was regarded as one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C.
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a decisive Union victory that divided the confederacy.
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considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. The confederate won.
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the surrender of the confederate and the end of the nation's largest war.
