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Thomas Jefferson acquires the Louisiana territory from France for a measly 15 million dollars. Manifest Destiny begins!
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As the US expanded the question of whether slavery should too surfaced. A compromise was made and a line was drawn dividing north and south as free and slave.
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Contrary to the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas Nebraska Act instated "popular sovereignty." States now choose to be a free or a slave state.
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In a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, Dred Scott was suing for his freedom. This decision would amplify the polarization between the North and the South.
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A race between four candidates, the outcome would spark the secession of several southern states following Lincoln's victory.
