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Passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress
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War that Americans and Mexicans fought to gain territory to expand from Texas to California.
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Laws admitting California as a free state, each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico fugitive slave.
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A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States
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Allowed an opening between Kansas and Nebraska resulting in slavery within each territory.
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Stated that the area could decide whether to be a free state or slave state.
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Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner get into a cane fight because of a comment made about a slave mistress.
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He was placed on trial and charged with treason against Virginia State.
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Abraham supportedd slave expansion, but the democrats didn't
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Dissolved all connections between South Carolina & the U.S.
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An island famous for the siting of the first Civil War shots fired.
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A scandal to make slaves believe that they would be saved, but truly weren't.
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First battle of the war to be fought on northern soil.
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The most important engagement of the Civil War
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Blockade southern ports and thrust down the mississippi river valley with strong large union force.
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Believed that the Civil War would end only if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity for warfare were decisively broken
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Taken by his master from a slave state to a free states. He lost in his votes and was to remain a slave. Caused an uproar in the North and South leading to the Civil War.
