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The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, and Maine entered as a free state.
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The Wilmot Proviso said that slavery was prohibited in lands aquired from Mexico.
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The Compromise of 1850 was set up to make peace within the nation by having a balance between slave states and free states.
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The Fugitive Slave Law required all citizens in the U.S. to help capture runaway slaves.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe stunned many people by her description of slavery.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that stated that the states could chose whether or not to allow slavery by popular sovereignty.
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Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many people were moved to Kansas to vote on whether it would be a free or slave state. There was a lot of violence. Kansas became a free state.
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Dred Scott was trying to get his freedom from his owner. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court. The decision was that Scott was still a slave and Congress didn't have the right to take away a citizen's property.
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Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had 7 debates on slavery to get a seat in the senate.
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Abolitionist John Brown took citizens hostage with his 22-man army, trying to get the slaves to rise up and help them. No slaves came forward and Brown and his men were caught and hanged.
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Lincoln was elceted, even though his name wasn't on the ballot in some Southern states.
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South Carolinavoted to break away. They didn't want to be a part of the Union.