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National Tarriffs benifited the northern manufacturers and hurt the southern economy. It forced the South to buy highly priced items whihc they didnt have the money for.
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South Carolina enacts a Black Code which slaves were denied the right to assemble, produce food, learn to read, and own any high quality clothes. This black code took away almost all rights so basically they are not human to the government of South Carolina.
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The U.S supreme Court rules that the Fugitive Slave Law is now constitutional. This enforceement of the Fugitive Slave Law is coming from the federal goverment not the states. While this is going on state personal right ask unconstitutional demands of slave owners. Also during this time Georgia legistlature will never recignozie free blacks as citizens.
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North carolina denies citizenship to free black. But on the other hands Oregon prohibits slavery.
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Fredrick Douglas breaks the abolistionist paper the Liberator and found a black abolitionist paper The North Star.
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Virginia passed a law that permitted the emancipation of any slave by will of deed.
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The Compromise of 1850 allowed California into the union as a free state also allows Utah and New Mexico to be decided by popular sovereignty, and baned slavery in Washinton D.C.
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Proslavery group attack a free soil town. John Brown and his sbolitionsit followers strike back as retaliation. This violence is known as "Bleeding Kansas."
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Ths U.S Supreme court ruling in the Dred Scott case denies citizenship to all slaves and denies congress the right to prohibit slavery in the territories.
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A group of abolitionists led by John Brown conducts a raid on Harper's ferry, Virginia but it was unsuccessful. The purpose for it was to undermine slavery in the south.
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Many states seceded from the Union right before the Civil war. States such as South Carolina, Florida, Misissippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. The Civil War began in Chareston, South Carolina.
