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When the Dutch landed in the Americas they traded the 20 slaves they had captured and sold them or traded them for food and supplies.
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3 out of 5 slaves votes would count but those votes normally were always their owners votes
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Since no one wanted to unbalanced the senate , the people wanted the same number of free and slave states . So Henry Clay came up with the compromise to be enforced in the Lousiana Purchase.
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If a slave was to flee to the North and got captured , he or she would be sent back to his/her owner . Making the slaves flee to Canada for freedom.
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When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book it showed the cruelty slaves would be put through .
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The goverment left the decion of if Kansas or Nebraska should be a slave or free state up to the people otherwise known as popular sovereignty.
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John Brown was an abolitionist who used violance to make his point that slavery was wrong. He killed 5 innocent people and he also toook his sons to help kill the innocent, after killing them he chopped them into many pieces to care the other pro-slavery.
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Dred Scott was taken by his owner to the Northern states and worked as a freeman, but when we returned to the south he was a slave again. Scott sued his owner for freedom but the judge said that property was not aloud to sue it's owner.
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Abraham Lincoln was the a republic representative that ran for president. The South were afraid he would take their slaves away so they didn't want him as a president
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South Carolina decided to secede because they knew that Abraham Lincoln would make the southern states get ride of their slaves.
