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The Missouri Compromise was created to decide which states would enter as free states and which would enter as slave states. The compromise worked for several years, but only put the problem to the side.
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David Wilmot presented a plan to stop the spread of slavery into territories won from Mexico and also made the South concerned in seeing the North's power.
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This was the FIRST party formed that was a “sectional party" and they picked Martin Van Buren as their first candidate for President.
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A five part compromise brought up to better problems for a short period of time until they got worse.
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This was a law that required northerners to return slaves and would be fined greatly if they did not follow.
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Was a novel written by Harriett Beecher Stowe showing what happened to the saves and how they were treated. The northerners started to become even more concerened.
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Stephen A. Douglas sponsored a bill that said Kansas and Nebraska's slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereightny and this led to conflict due to pro-slavery and anti-slavery people living in the same area.
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A man named John Brown goes out at night, taking his four sons with him, and drags five men from their homes and murders them for believing in slavery. The North is appalled to hear this has happened.
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Dred Scott was a black man who started out as a slave living in a free territory and then moved to a slave state where his owner died. He went to the Supreme Court to be a free man, but lost and also stated that slavery could not be banned, angering the North and pleasing the South.
