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Trying to stop slavery in the Mexican Cession territory out west, excluding Texas, by wanting to scare the southern states.
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Congress argued about what to do with all the new territory we had gotten from Mexico.
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Was a law passed to help slave holders recapture runaway slaves. This law made running away more difficult for slaves.This kept the North and South satisfied.
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Story wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe- story calling for an end to slavery. This divided the North and South.
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Bleeding kansas was allowing the right to vote in Kansas and Nebraska led to people rushing into areas to get the vote to get their way.
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Was a law passed to try to solve the problem of slavery in the western territory, people could choose to be free or a slave state.
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Dred Scott was a slave sued for his freedom African Americans were not citizens and couldnt sue, because slaves were property. This increased tension between the Northern and Southern states.
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Lincoln and Douglaas debatedslavery, Lincoln was anti-slavery, slavery is wrong but legal. Lincoln lost the election but became nationally famous.
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John Brown seized the federal arsenal plan which was to stir up a slave revolt in Virgina and end slavery. Brown became the hero in the cause of slavery.
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Voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the country they lived in. Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into new territories. Lincoln won the election.
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North surrenders because the South attacked Lincoln was president for only about a year.
