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It was a policy that said that said that any land that was gained in the Mexican-American War would be free land. The policy didn’t end up passing.
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A series of 5 laws that were based on Clay’s proposals.
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Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas and John Bell. He only got 40% of the popular vote but he got the majority of the electoral votes and won the election.
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It was a book about a man that was enslaved and was abused to tell people about slavery.
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Stephen Douglas wanted land west of Illinois threw the Nebraska territory. The states would be free states. It passed.
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He murdered 5 pro-slavery men and boys.
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Dred Scott was a man that was a slave and his master took him to a free state to work for him. Then he took it to judges and they said that he was not free even though he was in a free state. So if your master moves from a slave state to a free one, you have to go with them and you they not free.
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7 debates. All about slavery in the western states.
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When John Brown went to Harpers Ferry and attacked the town and seized guns.
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They were mad that Lincoln won the election they didn’t think that they had a voice in the government so they decided to secede from the Union.
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When some of the states decided that they didn’t want to be part of the union.
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They wouldn’t give up the fort so they stopped sending foods and then they started firing and then the war started.
