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After fighting about whether Missouri would become a slave state or not in 1820 they finally decided that it would become a slave state.
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The North wants the land that they gained from Mexico to be none slave territory while the south wants it to be slave territory.
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Free slves where worned that there where people that would kidnappe them and take them back to the south
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Northerners wanted to make sure that the territory gained from mexico stayed a slave free state.
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A group thats main goal was to stop the expansion of slave states.
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A bill was passed makeing it that a certain region would be devided into two part makeing it Kansas and Nebraska.
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THe first rebublican party was formed.
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People rushed into Kansas to decide whether it would be a slave state or not there would be fights and vilonce of the issue every where.
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Dread Scott had been a slave ever since he was bor and did not have any formal education. HIm and his master had lived in a frre state for a few years and then left. Dread got married and his master died and the widow took over.
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John brown plans an attack on a slave ship but is killed in the proces.
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Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 election.
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The south seceded from the union because Abraham Lincoln won the presidency. The south said that they had the right to do this.
