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He proposed to congress that they ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States because of the Mexican-American war.
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A compromise between the North and South, the north go to California, and the south got a stronger fugitive slave act.
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A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about an enslaved man who was abused. The book was a best seller in the North.
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Douglas made the Act that the kansas-nebraska territory would be decided if it was a slave state by popular sovereignty. The north was outraged because the south crossed the border just to vote that it was a slave state.
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Him and a group of 5 anti-slavery men, went to a pro slavery settlement killed 5 pro-slavery people.
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Dred Scott tried to sue the government, but Roger B Taney said that Dred Scott couldn’t sue because African Americans weren’t citizens and that a slave living in free territory did not make him free.
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Lincoln and Douglas had 7 debates around Illinois. Lincoln never showed that he didn’t support slavery but he made many comments that made it sound like he didn’t.
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Brown and many men attacked a town, with the intention of getting guns from the US army. He thought African Americans would support him, and he would give them guns and lead them to a revolt, but instead Brown and his men got captured and many died.
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He ran for president in 1860 and became the first Republican president.
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Once Lincoln was president it scared many people in the south, and South Carolina was the first southern state to secede from the Union, but the convention passed a declaration that “the union now subsisting between south carolina and other states under the USA is hereby dissolved.”
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Unrecognized country in North America that was led by 7 pro-slavery states.
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Confederate troops fired at a fort, many men died and lincoln couldn’t send them supplies, but he did send them food.
