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Missouri came as a slave state and main came as a free state to keep it equal. Northern feared that the door for slavery's westward expansion would be opened by douglas. (georgia encyclopedia)
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Helped avert sessions for over a decade. Southerners dismissed the compromise for unevenly benefiting north, but they still continued to advocate sessions.
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The union won, and the union had total of 60 thousand soldiers and the confederate had a total of 65 thousand. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point
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The 13th amendment abolishd slavery. The 13th amendment, along with the 14th and 15th, is one of the trio of Civil War amendments that greatly expanded the civil rights
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The ku klux klan used terrorism, both physical assault and murder, against groups or individuals whom they opposed.