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A trail of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape into free states or Canada. Many slaves escaped via Underground Railroad in 1850 about 100,000 escaped.
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Eil Whitney invented the cotton gin. It was a machine that quickly and easily separated cotton and seeds
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries.
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A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the largest and deadliest slave uprising.
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An American law to ban slavery in territory from Mexico. The Wilmot Priviso was one of the major events leading to the Civil War.
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A group of five different bills passed by the United States Congress.
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The act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery in their boarders
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the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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An effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initate an armed slave revolt.
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American presidential election split between northern and southern democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split learn more here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860)
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Slavery was extremely threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Fort Sumter is an island located in Charleston, South Carolina.
