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Missouri entered as a slave state, Maine entered as a free state, it also prohibited slavery north of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Because of State's Rights, the south believed they could nullify any tax from the Federal Government.
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States were evenly split and California, Utah, and New Mexico wanted to be states.
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Kansas and Nebraska were given sovereignty, Kansas would be a slave state, and this led to a civil was in Kansas called "Bleeding Kansas".
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He lived in several free states, filed a lawsuit claiming he should be a freeman, and the supreme court ruled that he couldnt sue because he was not a citizen and he was his owners property so he could not be taken away.
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Republican Party won so Abraham Lincoln was in office and because they thought Lincoln would not protect their state's rights, it caused the south to secede from the union creating the Confederate States Of America.
