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Congress"s attempt to even out the free and slave states when Missouri wanted to become a state. Missouri was added as a slave state and main was added as a free state and the 36 30 line was created.
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War between Mexico and the U.S where American won and took control of modern day California and New Mexico favored south
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At conclusion of the Mexican American War.A unsuccessful attempt by the U.S congress to ban slavery in the new acquired territories.
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Part of the compromise of 1850, A strict law regarding runaway slaves. Passed to counter act California becoming a free state
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Henry Clay's proposal replaced the Missouri compromise with the edition of more states to the union to further calm the growing tensions with slave and free states
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Book published by abolitionist to show people i the country the poor treatment and brutality of slavery in the south
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Passed to repeal the Missouri compromises 36 30 line and to let Kansas and Nebraska territory's chose if they want to be slave or free states
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Violent confrontations between anti slave people and slave owners in the Kansas territory Also known as the boarder wars didn't favor any side
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Representative Preston Brookes canned Senator Charles Sumner in his chambers in congress which furthered tensions between the dividing country
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Th federal Court decided that Americans of African decent were not citizens and could not sue in federal court and also decide that congress could not ban slavery in territories Favored the South
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It contained clauses protecting slave holders and a bill of rights excluding free blacks favored the south
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A series of 7 heated debates between Republican representative Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglass
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Abolitionist John Brown tried to initiate and armed slave revolt by taking over a U.S arsenal at Harpers Ferry but were defeated Favored by North
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After the election of Abraham Lincoln the South Carolina feared that their way of life would be taken so they split from the Union and created their own confederacy and asked other states to follow favored the south
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Election of 1860 in which Republican Abraham Lincoln won the presidency sparking the succession of the south
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the Crittenden Compromise was an attempt to stop the southern states from leaving the union but it failed
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The attack on Fort Sumter was the bombing of Fort Sumter in Charleston by the Confederate Army, and the return gunfire and surrender by the Union Army, that started the Civil War