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A set of laws that tried to keep peace between free and slave states after the american mexican war.
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Required people in free states to help capture and return escaped slaves
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A speech where douglas said that it was ironic that america celebrates freedom when slavery exists -
A book by harriet beecher stowe that showed the cruelty of slavery -
Alowed setlers in new teritories to vote on slavery or not
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Violent fights broke out between pro slavery and anti slavery settlers in kansas -
A supreme court case that enslaved people were property and not citizens
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An attempt by abololishionist john brown to start a slave revolt by seizing a federal arsenal it failed but increased tensions
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Lincolns election angers the south because he oppsoed slavery -
Carolina left the union after lincolns win becoming the first state to secede
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Southern states that suceded formed their own government called the confederacy -
The first shots of the civil war were fired at fort sumter.