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The Missouri Compromise created an imbalance between the number of pro/anti-slavery states until the admission of Maine as anti-slavery state. After becoming a pro-slavery state, it allowed for an imaginary line to be drawn dividing the former Louisiana Territory Into pro and anti-slavery divisions. This was ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
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It’s about questioning slavery if they should abominate slavery in Utah, and New Mexico.
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The Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave (Dred Scott) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Stephan Douglas an American Politician had the best chance to defeat the “Black Republicans.” They claimed that he was a traitor because of the power he had. They turned against him. The democrats didn’t choose a candidate until 6 weeks after the northern democrats chose Douglas. There was a separate convention which was called “Charleston Convention", and they were trying everything they could to keep Lincoln from becoming president because he was pushing so hard against slavery.
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Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War to fought to northern Soil.
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Was a presidential proclamation which is an statement issued by a president and a executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
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A union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. lee's second invasion of the North.
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He freed the slaves. He the only one with the penny thats brown as well