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A decision Congress made that made it so that Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
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It was a rebellion led by Nat Turner that was protesting slavery by killing white people. NOT OK.
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It made it so that nobody could talk about slavery any more. -
A proposal made in 1850 that said that all the land that they might gain from the Mexican-American War was not going to have slavery. -
The agreement that made California a free state in the Union, let New Mexico and Utah decide whether they would be slave or free, outlawed slave-trade in Washington D.C., and made a better fugitive slave law.
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Harriet Tubman was a slave that was going to get relocated and would never get free while she was there. So, she escaped, got there, came back, and saved a bunch of other slaves by taking them to Canada.
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It was talking about how bad slavery was, and the South got really mad about it.
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It was an act that made Kansas and Nebraska territories, and it made the Missouri Compromise irrelevant. It let the people decide whether they wanted slavery or not.
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It was a revolt of slave supporting people who wanted their opinion to be more voiced and heard than the anti-slavery movement. -
It said that no black person could ever be a citizen. It also said that the Missouri Compromise was un Constitutional. -
It was a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas concerning slavery.
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It was raid led by John Brown to steal all of the weapons in the arsenal. They ended up getting either killed or captured, but it really scared the South, because the North sort of thought that he had the right idea there.
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Lincoln won with only 40% of the votes, and it made the South scared that they were in the minority with their beliefs about slaver.