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The first African slaves are taken from Africa and added into the 13 colonies. This was the start of the southern economies dependence on slave labor.
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Increased demand for slaves
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Disagreement of how to run states
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caused north and south agreement/disagreement
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allowed an equal amount of slave states and free states. The missouri line was part of the Missouri Compromise and all new states south of the line could be slave and all new states north of the line could be free. Missouri itself was the only exception and it was a slave state.
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Nat Turner was a slave who thought god told him to revol against whites. He killed 57 whites and was captured and eventually hung.
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North wanted to but South didn't
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The election became based on who supported slavery and who didnt
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A law making everyone including northerners hunt for excaped slaves and if they let a slave go they were fined $1,000 dolllars. ALso if a judge sent an african american back to the south they gained $10 but if they freed one they gine $5. For the extra money judges would send innocents to the South
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A fiction book written by Harrriet Beeker Stowe about a kind african american man named uncle Tom who had his life ruined by slavery and eventually was killed by his owner when he wouldnt reveal the location of two runaway slaves. this book was widely popular throughout the north and opened northerners eyes to reathlize that this was a problem that couldnt be ingnored. THe South thought this book innaccurately explained slavery.
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Act spltting nebraska tarreitory and letting them vot by popular soverignity
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A fake railroad where Harriet Tubman and others would take slaves to escape to the north or to Canada for freedom
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An escaped slave who worked the underground railroad and helped slaves, including her parents, escape to freedom in either canada or the north
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Dredd scott was slave who wanted freedom because he had lived in Illinois a free state. he was ruled against and it was decided that enslaved cant make law suits
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The debate of whether slave life in the south or factory life in the north was worse.
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Party thats goal was to prohibit slavery in the Western Territories
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The right of new states to allow slavery or not
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North and south both ran their economy's differently South=agriculture
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North disagreed with south about wether or not they should have a protective tariff.
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kansas fight over proslavery or antislavery for popular soverignity debate