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government prohibited slavery in the Mexican Cession, excluding Texas, written by Henry Clay, kept the balance between slave and free states
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California added, slave trading stopped in the north, south got popular sovreaignty, and the fugitive slave. the fugitive slave act: act to have northerners bring runaway slaves back to the south
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also known as "Life Among the Lowly"
helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
this book wanted slavery to be sbolished -
allowed states to vote whether to be free or slave, this lead to a bloody civil war in Kansas (Bloody Kansas)
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a civil war in Kansas broke out on wheter they should be a free or a slave state, between Kansas (aboltionists) and Missouri (slaveholders)
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Dred Scott, a slave who lived in free state, Illinois.
"african americans, and those of african ancestory are not and cannot be citizens of the united sates, therefore they could not sue in federal court.
Scott tried to fight back with "all men are created equal" -
between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln did not believe the Union would fall, but that they would cease to be divided
Douglas won senator -
1860
Lincoln promised to abolish slavery
south said it would seperate from the union
the south called its new government the Confederacy
they elected Abraham Lincoln -
first battle of the civil war.
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Lee led the battle,he surrounded the force and captured it.
