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Congress said all states south of 36 30 paraellel were slave states, all north were free states. This caused a large amount of sectionilisim.
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This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was anti slavery. It helped lay groundwork for Civil War
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Said that peoplein Kansas and Nebraska would use popular soverinty to determine if the state was free or slave. Led to fighting to see what would win.
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John Brown takes an aresnal in Harper's Ferry to try to start a slave revolt. It fails and he is killed
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American civil war was fought between US north and US south over slavery and secession. More deathes of US citizens than both world wars combined.