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Civil war is based on slaves and this could start tension between north and south.
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The cotton gin was a device that took seeds out of cotton, because of this easy way more and more slaves were now there because of the cotton boom, civil war was based on slavery
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They had a split decision about whether to go to war, so this started some tension
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Harriet Tubman brought hundreds of people to freedom using secret passageways, started more tension between north and south
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He got a bunch of slaves and killed 57 plantation owners, a huge debate flared between whether it was good or bad, whether he needed to do it. Tension built
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After the Americans fought Mexico for texas, they got Texas which became a slave state. The reason this leads to the civil war is because a part of the reason we fought is because we wanted no more slavery.
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A popular slave state north didn't necessarily want to expand, creates tension
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John Browns raids on Harpers Ferry and Pottowatamie Creek further divide the north and south, he killed 5 people, then being captured raiding Harpers ferry
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He gets elected, this is when the war starts and the south secedes
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About owning slaves and sometimes types of governments