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A compromise passed to try and balance the power of free and slave states.
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The slave rebellion led by an enslaved man named Nat Turner.
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An unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in the new territory gained from Mexico.
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Americans started a war with mexico because they wanted their land.
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Five separate bills that decided what to do with the new land from Mexico.
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A law where any runaway slaves could be returned to their owner at any moment even after the are in the North.
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A book that showed people what it was like to be a slave in America.
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A new law that replaced the Missouri Compromise by letting Kansas and Nebraska vote on weather or not the west would be free or slave.
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Kansas one one of the territories selected to vote on weather or not the new land will be free or slave. Lots of tension was building up and many people from the north and south traveled to Kansas causing many riots, fights, and fires.
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The court ruled that Dred Scott could not sue his owner because black people weren't citizens.
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John Brown was sick of slavery so he decided to raid the arsenal. He armed the slaves to fight with him but they refused.
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South Carolina along with the rest of the south did not like the new laws from the North so they decide to secede from the Union. The were followed by the rest of the South soon after.
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The South became their own "America" called the Confederate States of America.
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After Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort the south decided to attack causing the battle of fort Sumter.
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The bloodiest battle in American history.
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The battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
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The largest battle ever fought in America.
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The location of the final battle of the Civil War.
