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California is admitted as a free state. When United accepted California as a state they could expand its territory./ The territory of New Mexico was organized with no specific prohibition for slavery.
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Law that required US citizens to return runaway slaves regardless of the slavery legality of state.
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Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed settlers to choose to have slaves or not.New Republicans Party formed the “Free Soil” party.
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Best seller novel in North. Made more people in north abolitionists and made the south assume there would be a civil war.
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Was a fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The Dred Scott Decision made abolitionists mad, because of how the Supreme Court was ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories.
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Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to try to take over the Federal Arsenal, but failed. He was executed and that made war even serious.
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The Republican Party grew out of opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The Party began as an anti-slavery Conscience Whigs. Later on Republican would be in power of the country during the civil war.
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A name for all the violence that occurred between abolitionists and Pro Slavery forces. Trust between North and South was gone.
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Lincoln won with 39.8% of votes. Brought the republican party yo power without support of a single Southern state. As soons as he became president, So. Carolina and other states from the south declared secession.