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Pre civil war
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book showed that a slaves life was like and stered emotions. -
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise angered many people. So both pro and anti slavers meet in kansas and the blood was shed. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Dred Scott Decision threatened the whole racest borer line that the government was trying to avoid. The decision classified slaves as property that angered alot of people. -
John Brown’s Raid
John Brown was a abolitionist who organized a small band of white allies and free blacks to a violent protest againt white slave owners. After he was stoped and hanged many whites were scared for the saftey and punished their slaves. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Election
As a republican, his party’s anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many southerners. He wasnt even on some southern ballots and when he won they knew the outcome. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold.
