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James Tallmage proposed an admenment. The admenment said that Missouri could join the union but only as a free state. The southerners did not like this idea so they threw out the proposed admenment.
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As a result of the Missouri Compromise Missouri entered the union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state to make both sides happy. In Missouri they had drawn a line called the 36,30 parallel, below their was slavery above slavery was prohibited.
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In the late 1849's California applied for admission to the union as a free state the northerners welcomed the idea. The southerner's did not want this.
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The comprise of 1850 addmitted california as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up with slavery.
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The fugitive slave law was a law that made both sides unhappy it was based on when a slave ran away the northerners had to return them but most never did it made the southerners very unhappy.
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Nothing brought the horror's of slavery home to the norhterners more than the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe. It made millions of peoplel hate slavery.
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The Ostend Manifestio was a message to the secatary of state by three american diplomats who were meeting in ostend,belgium.
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After Chareles Sumner's speech against slavery Preston Brook's beat him with his can on the Senate floor. It took Sumner three in a half years to recover.
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Dred Scott struggle's for freedom but in the end and before the civil war all slaves are free in the north.
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Lincoln's opponent in the senate race was senator Stephen Douglas. The Illinois senator saw no reason why they would just split the free and the slave states. Lincoln Challenged him to a slavery debate.
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Lincoln won with 40% of votes the rest of the votes were split up between other nomine's.
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The south was leaving the UNION.
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THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH
