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The Missouri Comprimise: admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It also made any states above the Southern boundry of Missouri a free state with the exception of Missouri.
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Reasons for the Civil War
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Nullification: lowered high taxes on imported goods for Southern States
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Compromise of 1850: made California a free state, ended slave trading in Colombia, made Texas give up annexing New Mexico, let New Mexico and Utah decide whether they would be slave or free states, and enacted a stronger fugitive slave law.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act: Initiated popular sovereignity which let the new states vote to be either a slave or free state.
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Dred Scott Case: A slave named Dred Scott was born in a slave state and taken North to a free state with his master who later returned him to a slave state. Scott went to the Supreme Court saying that since he had lived in a free state, that he was consid
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Election of 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States