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This was a compromise to help balance the power between slave states and free states. This divided the U.S and caused a lot of tension between the north and south.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of slaves that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. They killed about 51 white people. This caused a lot more tension in the U.S
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This was a war fought between mexico and U.S over land. It was fought 1846 to 1848
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The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
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The Compromise of 1850 was five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that denied a confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican American War.
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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, United States, between 1854 and 1859 which emerged from a political debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
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This act created territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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Dred Scott was a former slave who tried to become a citizen but the supreme court said he couldn't be a citizen because he was someones property
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John Brown felt that he had to put in end to slavery so he came up with a plan to fight all of the people for slavery. This was a big fail and he got arrested.
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Lincoln was elected in 1860. This was big because he was against slavery and this caused a lot of tension in the U.S.
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Once Lincoln was elected south Carolina decided to secede from the U.S.
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In February 1861, representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America
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The First Battle of Fort Sumter began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolina Militia artillery fired from shore on the Union garrison.
