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This was an anti slavery novel that highlighted the horror of being a slave and of being taken from your family, which helped bring the horrors of slavery into the light and how it goes against Christian ideals.
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The position of slavery in the territory rested on the vote of the people, so this led to a lot of tension, and in Kansas, a small war between the citizens.
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The Republican Party came to be after the Kansas-Nebraska Act split the Whig Party. Everyone who left the party became a Republican, which led to the Whig Party falling apart.
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise 36 30 line and established the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Senator Stephen A Douglas proposed it.
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A proslavery democrat in the Senate, Preston Brooks, beat the abolitionist Republican Charles Sumner with a cane, which showed how far the tensions were rising over slavery
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The person elected was named James Buchanan, and he was a democrat. He won over John C. Fremont only because the South threatened to secede if he didn't win
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The Supreme Court decided that slaves were property and that Congress could not ban slavery through the Missouri Compromise.
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It was a constitution that fought for slavery in Kansas and protected slaveholding, but it was rejected, and it this divided the nation to the brink.
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These were a series of debates between the two fighting for a seat in the Senate, which led to the freeport doctrine and Douglas giving a workaround to the Dred Scott decision.
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Lincoln talks about how compromise was impossible because the issue of slavery is so prevalent, there needs to be no division, and with compromise, not much would be solved.
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John Brown, an abolitionist, led an assault on the military arsenal in West Virginia, and the purpose was to get weapons needed to free slaves.
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He was an aggressive abolitionist who tried to steal weapons in Harpers Ferry to free slaves but failed and was tried and hanged.
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Lincoln is elected over 3 other candidates, with most of his support coming from the free states. The South was infuriated and took this as the last stra,w with most states seceding
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The states South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas seceded from the Union and started a civil war.
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Lincoln's goal with this address was to ease tensions and prevent violence. He said that he will do nothing to take their slaves as he has no reason to.