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slavery arrived in North America with an estimated 645,000 Africans
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Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
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a slave named Nat Turner insided an uprising that spread through many plantations in southern Virginia
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this was a piece of legislation proposed by David Wilmot. If passed it would outlaw slavery in territories acquired by the US
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The compromise admitted that California as a free state and did not regulate slavery and strengthen the fugitive slave act.
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It was a second best selling book in America it brought the issue of slavery to life
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the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 established Kansas and Nebraska as territories. The residents of the territories decide if the state is to be free or enslaved
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Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case rose to the level of the supreme court
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Lincoln and Douglass engaged in 7 with public debates across the state of Illinois where they debated the issue of slavery
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John Brown supported violent action against the south to end slavery and played a major role in starting the civil war
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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 despite not being included on many southern ballots. His parties anti-slavery outlook struck fear into many southerners
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Lincolns strategy to fire the first shot of the civil war at the Battle of Fort Sumter