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The Misouri Compromise mainatined the balance between slave and free states in the senate and caused many debates over it.
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The Wilmot Priviso specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be aquired from Mexico
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California became a free state, New Mexico could be a free state, and Wasington D.C. would not allow trading or selling of slaves.
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An act that required all citizens to elp catch runaway slaves.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which stunned people with her detailed description of slavery.
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A bill that states that states could allow slavery by popular soveignty.
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People for and against slaverymoved to Kansas to vote on whether Kansas should allow slavery. There was a lot of violence and in the end Kansas became a free state.
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Dred Scot tried getting his freedom by sueing his owner for taking him into a free state and not becoming a free man. He lost his case because the government can't take away property and slaves aren't citizens.
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Stephan Douglas battled Abraham Lincoln in face to face debates of slavery around the state to win a seat in the senate.
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Abolitionist John Brown took citizens hostage with his 22 men. He was taken prisoner, tried, and then hung.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected eventhough his name wasn't on the ballot in the Southern states
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South Carolina opposed Lincoln's election and voted to break away. They didn't want to be part of the U.S. anymore and was the first Southern state to do this.
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