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Banned slavery in the Mexican Cession [Didn't work]
Important cause the U.S. tried to stop slavery -
Keep the balance betwwen slave states and free states Daniel Webster began lokking for thingg the north and south would agree to a compromise on so that we could keep americians from going to war for awhile longer.
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Law passed 1850 to help slave holders recapture runaway slaves
5 dollars for releasing a defent
10 dollars for returning the slaves -
North said that slavery was a horrible thing and that it was unacceptable.
South felt like it was yankee abolitionist propanda: north was lying about slavery -
People in the territories could decide for themselves
Weather their states would allow slaves
People began flooding into Kansas and Nebraska
Solve problem in slavery in west -
Allowed popular sovereighty in Kansas and Nebraska Became the rally cry for the anti slavery northerners and the political partys called the republicans started chopping people up
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Scott was a slave that sued for freedom Blacks were not people and they could not sue in the court of law This increased tension between northern and southern states
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John Brown= seized the fedrealist arsenal
Plan=stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery
Brown became a [hero] in the cause of slavery
He tried to free the slaves but died -
Both running for sentors of Illonois in 1858
Debated slavery in 7 cities
Lincoln positive was legal
Slavery was wrong but legal
Debated slavery
Lincoln lost the election but was famous -
The voters in 1860 voted mostly based on which section of the counntry lived in.
Lincoln won the election
Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading to the new territories.
Southern states started to secede -
The south open fire then the north surrendered Then the war has begun
