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Slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel excluding Missouri
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The final compromise to have the north and the south happy.
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increased tensions as it obligated northerners to assist in the apprehension of escaped slaves
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Book that made people to rethink about slavery
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People voted on Kansas and Nebraska to be a free or slave state
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approximately 56 people died and both the slaveholders and anti slaves close by came down to vote
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Charles Sumner gave a speech that made Preston Brooks hit him with a walking cane
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The debates between Lincoln and Douglas about slavery helped Lincoln build a reputation from the west
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Brown sparked a slave uprising and cause a violent raid. Brown was captured and hanged.
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Slave states tarted leaving the union starting with South Carolina
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Lincoln gave a speech that made him overnight star. It helped him become a nominee for president and won the Republican nomination for president
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Lincoln wins the election going against 3 opponents and no slave state voted for him. The slave states threaten to leave the Union if Lincoln won.
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In the speech Lincoln tried to show the south that he means no harm but the south took it as a challenge to go to war
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President Buchanan spend four agonizing months trying to govern a nation coming apart, he was the last president before the union split up and tired his best to keep the Union together
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It was the start of Civil war