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Measurments intended to settle isagreements between free states and slave states. It did not work. It did not cover new states. It angered the south.
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The law that was passed that provided harsh treatment for escaped slaves. Also for those who helped slaves. After this was passed the north passed a law that let slaves stay free.
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Law passedd by the north forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves. It angered the south because it was the oppostie of the Fugitive Slave act.
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Was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was an anti slave novel. It caused an uproar in the south. People were angered by it
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The lae that split nebraska into two territories. They allowed popular soverignty there. Pro slavery settelers came and tried to get them to be slave states. But the people living there did not want to become slave states so here was fighting.
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Scott was a slave that was escaped to a free territory. The court ruled on the decison that blacks could not become citizens.
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the Lecompton Constitution was created allowing for Kansas to be a slave state. Pro-slavery forces supported by President James Buchanan attempted to push the Constitution through the US Congress for acceptance
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Idea that any territory could ban slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it. It angered many southern democrats. It caused them to want to leave the union.
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John brown broke into an amrory and took guns and gave them to 20 slaves. They tried to form a revolt. But they were taken down quickly.
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Abe lincoln got elected a president of the union. He was a rebublican. The sotherners thought he would try to abolish slavery.
