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This made Missouri a slave state and Maine became a free state.
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Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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This consisted of laws admitting California as a free state.
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Federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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Allowed settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
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A series of violent events in the U.S. involving anti slavery.
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Addressed wheather Kansas should be a slave state or a free state.
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The right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories.
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Attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
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They supported slavery in the territories.
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As war progressed thousands of ex slaves joined the union forces.
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Abraham Lincoln crushed the rebellion of southern states.
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This was the site of the first shots of the civil war.
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It was the first battle fought of the civil war on northern soil.
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Abraham Lincoln was more concerned about the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery.
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Was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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Was to frighten Georgias civilian population into abandoning the confederate cause.
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This happened four years after the civil war.
