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In 1787 the Three-Fifths law was passed because the North was worried about the south having more people
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Missouri became a slave state while maine became a free state,so peace would remain between the two sides.
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Missouri was allowed to join the Union as a slave state.
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Southerners were furious because that would mean there would be more free states than slave states.
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Utah and New Mexico were allowed to vote to decide if slavery would be allowed in there territiores.
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In 1850 congress passed the fugitive slave act.Also this made Northerners were angered by this.
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when the south suggested a Compromise called "The Compromise of 1850".
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California joined the north as a free state and stopped selling slaves in Washtion D.C.
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In 1854 Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska act.
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In 1860 President Abraham Lincoln got elcted
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On April 12 1861 the South attacked the North at Fort Sumter and the civil war began
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The war at Fort Sumter caused the begging of the Civil War.
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1861-1865 was the Civil war
