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The Three-Fiths compromise was made by the northern states and southern states. It was a debate on whether slaves would be considered as people or property. It was decided ,that slaves would be three-fiths a person.
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Henry clay suggested the missoury compromise so that the number of slave states and free states would be equal. missoury was allowed to become a slave state while main would be ammited as a slave state.
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The Second Compromise called the compromise of the 1850,was to keep the North and South from going to war. Congress admited California as a free state,and did not let Washington sell slaves. All this did not satisfiy the South.
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The Kansas and Nebraska act allowed people in two states to choose representatives to write state consituions . the consituion would permite or forbid slavery.
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John Brown was an Abolitionist. He led 21 men to Harpers Ferry Virgina to stand up to slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln promised to destroy slavery for good. Still,most southerns treated Abraham Lincoln like a enemy.
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On April 12 1861, the South states atack fort sumter. This is how the Civil War begin. This war consisted brother against brother.It was one of the bloodiest war.
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Eleven Southern States declare there freedom in 1861 .These states wanted to make their own decisions and live by them selves without the government telling them what to do.
