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Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery.
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Henry Clay came up with the compromise to settle the North and South dispiutes against which states became slave and free states.
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A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which called to end slavery.
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The people in the territories decide for themselves, everyone started to move into Kansas and Nebraska.
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A small scale civil war broke out in Kansas, their rallying cry was "Bleeding Kansas"
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Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court decided that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue. It increased tension between North and South.
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Both running for Senator of Illinois. Lincoln lost, but it helped spread him nationally.
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John Brown seized a federal arsenal and started a slave revolt, but it failed.
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Lincoln promised to keep slavery from sreading into new territories. He won the election. Southern states began to secede, calling themselves the Confederate States of America.
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Lincoln sent supplies to the Fort when the South opened fire on them, which set off the Civil War.
