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Slavery in America started when slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to help in the production of such wanted crops like tobacco.
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Many Northerners would protect slaves that would come to them even though, Article 4, section 2 of the Constitution said that slaves who escaped to free states had to be surrendered to their owners upon demand.
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The Slave Trade Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the UK passed 25 March 1807, called "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade".
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This was to keep the balance of free states and slave states. This had Main as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
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David Wilmot introduced the proviso in the US House of Representatives, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill for the negotiations to solve the Mexican–American War.
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The North and the South were having hard times following the constitution when it came to slaves. The 1850 act provided federal commissioners to conduct hearings to grant or deny certificates allowing slave owners to take back fugitive slaves.
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Henry Clay introduced a bunch of resolutions to make a compromise between the North and the South.
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It is an anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This "helped lay the groundwork for the civil war."- Will Kaufman.
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This act was passed by congress allowing the people of Kansas-Nebraska to decide if they want to have slavery or not within their own borders.
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Was a violent series of political confrontations involving anti-slavery, Free-staters, and Border-ruffin, in Kansas.
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Dred Scott was a slave in the US who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and his wife’s along with their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
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It was done by a white abalitionist to start an armed slave revolt.
