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The Missouri Compromise was a line drawn through the center of the United States that decided which states were free or slaves states. This effectively cut the country in half.
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Nat Turner was a slave who gathered a group of fellow slaves in a revolution attempt. For two days his group went around freeing slaves and killing white people, but the group was captured and executed shortly thereafter.
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The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was written about the horrors of slavery and a woman who escaped from it. The book became popular in the North and over seas, opening people eyes to what they had never witnessed before.
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Kansas was a state that hadn't decided whether it wanted to be part of the Union or rising Confederacy. Open violence occured between those on either side of the debate.
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The Dred Scott case was an argument that if a slave's master took them out of a slave state then they wouldn't be considered a slave anymore. Dred Scott lost the case, and therefore slavery was considered legal in all states.
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John Brown was a massive supporter of Anti-Slavery. In an attempt to arm the slaves and start a revolution, he raided an armory in an attempt to seize weaponry for this purpose. In the end, he failed but the actions he took electrified the nation.
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The battle that officially start the Civil War, Confederate Soldiers attacked a Union fort in South Carolina, declaring it was there land. Following the battle, a large number of citizens in botht eh North and the South decided that war would be the best option.
