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Privateer "The White lion" brought 20 African slaves to the British colony Jamestown modernly known as South Virginia
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After the American Revolution the Northern states one by one pass emancipation laws, while the south becomes increasingly using slaves.
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Following the 1803 Louisiana purchase, Missouri becomes Pro Slavery tipping the balance and Maine becomes free, balancing the free to slave scale. Shortly after the U.S. officially becomes divided in half with mostly Southern as slave states and Northern free states.
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As a angry slave Nat Turner started a rebellion killing sixty white people with around seventy others men of color helping in this rebellion. This was the most bloodiest rebellion and started the domino effect that lead up to the Civil War.
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A piece of legislation made by David Wilmot states that any land won from the Mexican American war would be free states, covering the South west territory.
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The compromise of 1850 was about 5 different bills stating that land gained from the Mexican American war will be free states and cut Texas's North Western borders. This was passed the same year and added two more free states making 22 total union states.
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After four years of trying The Wilmot Proviso fails.
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A fictional book wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe to explore slave life, once the Northerners read the book they saw the true horrors of slavery as the south protested this slanderous.
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One of the most violent acts between Northern an Southern civilians (Non military) Kansas being divided between becoming a anti slavery or pro slavery government.
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Dred Scott v. Sanford was a slave who took his freedom to sue at court, this case lead to be to big and complex it had to be taken to the Supreme court. The Supreme Court found that Dred Scott v. Sanford was nothing but a piece of property that had no rights to a human. Dred Scott v. Sanford swore to take down this government that prevented Civil War.
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Stephen Douglas was the opponent of Abraha Lincoln and had seven public debates representing the southern democratic party, debating on the major issue during the time, slavery. These debates propelled Lincoln into national spotlight and crushed the chances of Stephen Douglas winning office in 1860.
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John Brown, an abolitionist who supported the North planned a raid on the federal armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He and 19 others did the raid and distributed the guns to local slaves in an uprising. Robert E. Lee put am end to this uprising and convicted John Brown for treason and was hung on December Second.
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The five year battle between half of Kansas comes to an end with Kansas becoming a free state.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the election as a republican he was Anti Slavery and scared many Southerners.
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Seven thirteen states secede from The United States and become the Confederacy. Including South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and South Carolina.
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On April 12, 1861 Confederate warships bombard Fort Sumter for 34 hours. The Civil war has officially begun, war has begun and there is no turning back.
