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Pro slavery and anti slavery staet arguing and these arguments get heated.
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A war caused between the untied state and meixco because mexico thought they owned land that america had.
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This was one most contrversonial elements of the 1850 compromise and heighttened nothern fears of slavert power conspiracy.
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Douglas hoped that the formula of '' popular sovereginty'' would ease tension over the issue of human bondage and he ouldnt have to take a side.
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Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.
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With no warning Brooks rushed foward and started beating the unsuspected Summer savagely with a gold-tipped wooden cane.
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Taney hoped that his ruling would settle the slavery question once it immediatley spurred vehemnet dissent from anti-slavery elements in the North.
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Before Lincoln inaugration, seven Southern states declared their declared their secession and later formed the Confederacy.
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in 1861 General P,G.T. Beaureguard was in command of the cinfederate forces around Charleston Harbor. THey opened fired on theUnion garrison holding Fort Sumter.
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President Abraham Lincoln ussued Emancipation on January 1 1863 as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war
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After his success at Chancellorsville in Virgina in May 1863, Lee his army through his army through the Shenanhoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North. The Gettysburg Campain
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The Compromise of 1850 dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate.