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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Made clothes easier to make cotton became king. Due to the cotton gin more slaves were necessary to keep the planations running in the south.
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When Califorina asked to join the union, the balance of power became a concern once again
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The law required Northerners to help capture escaped slaves and return them to slaveholders in the south.
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It was impossible for Northerners to avoid the discussion of slavery.
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He sponsored the kansas-Nebraska Act which created the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Dred Scott decision pleased many southern slaveholders. It meant that slavery was legal in all the territories.
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Brown lead a group of 18 to 21 followers, both African American and whitee, on a raid of the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry.
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Abraham Lincoln Received only 40 percent of the popular vote.
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The Union Is Dissolved.
