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The Union and Confederates debated if the New states could be Slave States.
Henry Clay created a compromise that Missouri would become slave and Main would be free.
The Missouri Compromise line was that any states north would be free and any south would be slave -
The Southern States did not agree with tariffs so the South Nullified the tariffs. John C Calhoun said that any state could nullify any law they thought was unconstitutional.
The federal Government didnt let South Carolina nulfiy so Henry Clay compromised and lowered the tariffs. -
Congress debated over the new territories they earned from Mexico. They decided that California would be a free State and Congress would not ban slavery in the other territories
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Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act. This let African Americans be captured in the north if they were Run-Away Slaves. The Act made abolisionist very upset and increased tession between North and the South
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5000 people to that Supported slavery came to vote to make Kansas proslavey. The Abolistionest from the north counter attacked and came to the Kansas to make it a free state. The proslavery people attacked the anti-slavery people.
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Dred Scott was a slave that lived in Illnois and moved to Missouri. All slaves could not become citizens in the US. and the Court declared the 1820 commise unconstitutinal and slavery was permitted
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.
The Confederates Began to Secede from the Union
