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The cotton gins invented by Eli Whitney this machine could take the job of a bunch of men but it needed a lot of slaves to farm all the cotton
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Slavery ended in the north from NE to Penn. this made the south worry because they wanted slaves
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Slavery was allowed below a certain line south
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liberia
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Nat turner was an escaped slave that lead a rebellion
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The New England Anti slavery society was a group of men who formed this society to try and ban slavery
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F.D. escaped to New England and gave many speeches about slavery that moved people to tears. Influenced people to join the fight. Went across US and Britain to speak.
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the idea that all land won from Mexico should be free
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the Mexican war added new lands to the US and again there was debate
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A debate over if California should be a slave state or a free state
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the free-soil party was formed
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the FSA of 1850 helped catch runaway slaves if you let a slave go you would be fined/jailed and the FSA sent slaves to court but since judges got more money for sending slave back to south they did that more
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Compromise of 1850 had five parts, Cali enter union as free state, divided the rest of the Mexican session into NM and U used popular sovereignty, ended slave trade to Washington D.C congress said they didn’t have the power to ban the trade into other sates, included fugitive slave act
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Uncle tom's cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the rough life as a slave in the south caused people in north to join the fight
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Stephen doula's bill the Nebraskan-kansas act was to let the people in the territory vote for if they wanted slave or no slave (popular soveirighty)
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Jan. 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to set up a go in Nebraskan territory he proposed the nebraskan territory be split into Nebraska and Kansas
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one proslavery man won and one antislavery man won started crisis in the law place
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proslavery men raided town of Laurence antislavery place and wrecked it in return John Brown and others to Pottawatomie Creek and dragged 5 proslavery men out of their beds and murdered them
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court said that since died Scott was an enslaved African American he could file a lawsuit even though he was living in a free state also court said the the Missouri compromise didn't have the right to ban slavery because it was uncost
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The election of Lincoln split the nation in half because the south believed that Lincoln didn't want slavery
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A war over slavery between the North and South
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a group of southern states left the Union and set up the CSA
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after the nation sail and the south created the CSA they Attacked a union fort in South Carolina called fort Sumter at this battle the CSA heard that the Union was running out of supplies so they attacked and after a while the union ran out of ammunition and had to surrender