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The Three Fifths Compromise allowed Southern states to have every 3 out of 5 slaves count as representation. This settled the representation issue and allowed slaves to count as property.
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The Missouri Compromise was the Compromise the Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would become a free state.
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The Compromise of 1850 was the decision that Texas would be given 10 million dollars to pay off its debt to Mexico. Then Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Nevada would decide if they wanted slavery or not.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was an act that if any slaves were found without their masters they were to be brought back to them.
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The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin showed slavery from the victim's eyes and showed how it affected the victims.
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Frederick Douglass was a slave for a big portion of his young years until he escaped to New York and settled in Massachusetts. He wrote "What to the Slave is Fourth of July?" on July 5th 1852.
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Both Kansas and Nebraska were to use popular soverignty to determine if they were slave or free states.
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The Dred Scott Decision was the decision that Dred Scott, a man who had been a slave all his life would continue to be a slave for his master even though he moved to a free state.
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The Lincoln v. Douglas Debate was the debate between the two if states should be able to use popular soverignty for if they want slavery or not in that state.
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In the Election of 1860 Abraham Lincol won the election and went on to be the 16th President of the United States.
